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Many traditional mental health treatments are now viewed as being risky, intrusive, and barbarous in comparison to modern science because healthcare has advanced significantly over time. Here are five of the most extreme treatments for mental illness in recorded history, along with an examination of how some of them influenced more reputable approaches used in modern therapies.

Dr. Janos Tanyi, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is joined by Dr. Charles Turck to discuss fluorescence-guided, intraoperative imaging as well as a new imaging drug to help physicians better detect ovarian cancer.

This 1.25-credit CME course provides a review and update of current practice on minimally invasive vs. open pancreaticoduodenectomy, including trends and outcomes in robotic and laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy.

The new codes, which became effective in January 2020, replaced existing EEG Monitoring codes used for limited electrode set (95950), daily video-EEG (95951), ambulatory EEG (95953), and daily EEG without video (95956). Have you reviewed the new codes and figured it all out?

The Lumipulse G β-Amyloid Ratio (1-42/1-40) test could potentially eliminate the need for positron emission tomography (PET) scans to assess amyloid plaques in patients’ brains, Jeff Shuren, MD, JD, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement.