Acne and suicide

Amazing commentary on how poor medical reporting can be.

While it is certain that any valid published article had a second study group (no acne) for comparison, the article never mentioned this. Not only is causality left up in the air, but from the reporting, is is not evident that acne is associated in a harmful or protective manner.

I think that was a Non-article. No mention of rates of suicidal thoughts/ depression/ anxiety in teenagers without acne or with comparison on or off acne meds.

Overall, I think KevinMD does not do a comprehensive take on issues pertaining to psychiatry. For example, no link to Shrink Rap, and you didn’t even mention (forgive me if I overlooked this) the Sunday NYTimes piece on difficulties with diagnosis in psychiatrically ill children.
Just my thoughts.