College drinking: a call to physicians

College student suicide: a call to action.

This article examines current issues related to the topic of college student suicide and why it continues to be an issue of major concern. The nature/extent of the problem, risk and protective factors, responses to college student suicide, legal issues, and training issues are discussed. The importance of addressing the issue of college student suicide and its prevention on college campuses is ...

American College of Physicians

Purpose: To determine the disease-free survival and post treatment toxicity following salvage permanent prostate brachytherapy (sPPB) as a second curative treatment in patients with biopsy proven local recurrence after initial external beam radiation treatment (EBRT) for prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Between June, 1996, and December 2007, 23 patients were treated with sPPB for histolo...

American College of Physicians

Commentary: Psychiatric training for physicians: a call to modernize.

Genetics and the neurosciences are changing the knowledge base of psychiatry. The authors of this commentary argue that if psychiatry is to meet the considerable challenges associated with assimilating the rapid advance of those sciences and populating the field with new leaders who will contribute to such advances, fundamental problems in psychiatric education and training must be addressed. T...

College men's health: an overview and a call to action.

For men of college age, the risks of disease, injury, and death are far greater than for women of the same age group, yet college men's health concerns receive little attention from health professionals. In this multidisciplinary overview, the author discusses college men's health risks, men's failure to adopt health-promoting behaviors, their propensity to engage in risky behaviors, their beli...