Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Unemployment and suicide rates

By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest A rather disturbing but not unexpected article was just published in Lancet Psychiatry correlating suicide rates with unemployment (see Lancet Psychiatry 2015; 2: 239–45​). About 1 million people per year die by suicide around the world. Prior data on the relationship between unemployment and suicide have been a bit mixed, though several studies have found […]

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Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Exercise and the development of diabetes

By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest. There are many studies on the relationship between exercise and the development of diabetes. The studies for diabetes prevention have been somewhat conflicting about the intensity and amount of time doing exercise, with some suggesting that doing low-intensity exercise for longer was as good as high-intensity exercise for a shorter period of time. This […]

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