Blood test for Major Depression?

A couple months ago there were a few articles that ran about developing a blood test for Major Depressive Disorder ( see: The Chicago Tribune, CBS News, TIME, Medscape, Huffington Post, Newsweek, New York Magazine and HealthDay).  This sounds great: it could...

Legal Lunch with Laura webinar

Last week I had the pleasure of co-presenting another “Legal Lunch with Laura” webinar with my colleague, Laura Rubenstein of Offit Kurman law firm.  Laura is an employment law attorney and a wonderful speaker.  Our webinar was entitled, Analysis of Common...

Legal Lunch with Laura (and Michael)

Analysis of Common Psychiatric Illnesses and Assessment of Reasonable Accommodations in the Workplace Join management-side employment attorney Laura L. Rubenstein of Offit Kurman, P.A. and Dr. Michael Heitt of Heitt Clinical & Corporate Consulting, LLC on Tuesday,...

Beware of the Benzos

USA Today recently ran a summary of a SAMHSA report about the dangers of Xanax use.  Xanax (alpazolam) is a benzodiazepine antianxiety medication that, frankly, works really well for a lot of people.  That’s a good thing.  The problem is that many primary care...