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Title: Older Diabetics With Depression Face Higher Death Rate
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Created: 10/11/2008 2:00:00 AM
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Title: People With Social Phobia Have Different Self-Image
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Created: 10/10/2008 2:00:00 AM
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Your 9-Point Health Bailout Package
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Created: 10/10/2008
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law May Overlook Depressed Patients
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Created: 10/9/2008 2:00:00 AM
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Children as Young as 4 Can Develop OCD
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Created: 10/9/2008 2:00:00 AM
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: As Economy Worsens, so Does Stress
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Created: 10/9/2008
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: FDA OKs TMS Depression Device
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Created: 10/9/2008
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Patients Benefit From End-of-Life Discussions With a Doctor
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Created: 10/8/2008 2:00:00 AM
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Women's Health
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 3/28/1999
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 3/28/1999
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Colds: 10 Tips to Prevent The Common Cold
Category: Doctor's Views
Created: 9/21/2005
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
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Created: 9/21/2005
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: Health Tip: Boost Your Energy
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Created: 10/7/2008 2:00:00 AM
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MedicineNet Mental Health General
Title: ADHD Stimulant Meds Cut Young Girls' Drug Abuse Risk
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Created: 10/7/2008 2:00:00 AM
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Mental Health News From Medical News Today
The Washington Post on Friday examined how mental health parity legislation, which was included in the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms that President Bush last week signed into law, is "a culmination of a decade of lobbying and negotiating among advocates for the mentally ill, the insurance industry, the business community ...
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A new survey out today on World Mental Health Day has revealed that whilst the credit crunch has understandably made many people a little more depressed and anxious, just 8% had become a lot more depressed and anxious. The YouGov survey commissioned by mental healthcare specialists Affinity found that overall 51% of people surveyed said that they were in fact unaffected by the current financial circumstances, and a further 37% had been a little more anxious or depressed.
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This week, as the world's attention turns to issues of good mental health for Friday's World Mental Health Day, BBC Learning's own mental health and wellbeing campaign - BBC Headroom - celebrates with the transmission of Alastair Campbell's moving film, Cracking Up, some new faces at bbc.co.uk/headroom and a dedicated action line: 08000 933 193[i].
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Recently more than 100 college presidents surrendered their authority to do something meaningful about campus alcohol abuse by urging policymakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. There has not been so great a "hand-washing" of a significant problem since Pontius Pilate! Thankfully, this group did not include University of Wyoming leadership. I have a unique perspective on this issue. I was a member of the Wyoming Legislature when it lowered the drinking age to 18 in 1973.
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Health Secretary Alan Johnson today welcomed publication of a landmark international report, which highlights that mental health services in England are leading the way in Europe. The report from the World Health Organisation, published to mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October, showed that: - England directs 13.
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Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is Oct. 5-11, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is raising awareness of mental health issues and the importance of eliminating the stigma surrounding them. Now in its 25th year, Mental Illness Awareness Week provides communities across the country with an opportunity to acknowledge the human and economic toll taken by mental illnesses and to celebrate new treatment advances. Most Americans know someone with a mental illness.
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More than 75% of people suffering from mental disorders in the developing world receive no treatment or care. A new WHO programme launched today, on World Mental Health Day 2008 highlights the huge treatment gap for a number of mental, neurological and substance use disorders. Across Africa for example, nine out of ten people suffering from epilepsy go untreated, unable to access simple and inexpensive anticonvulsant drugs which cost less than US$5 a year per person.
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Phillips Idowu, Joe McGann and Sophie Anderton join the thousands who have 'walked a mile for mental health' this week as part of 'Get Moving' (4-12 October) by leading walks at a World Mental Health Day event in Battersea Park, London, at 10.30am today. The mass participation week has involved some 14,000 people across England in enjoying the benefits of physical activity on mental wellbeing combined with tackling mental health stigma by taking part.
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The Priory Group has issued a list of top ten indicators for stressed City executives which should act as warning signs that professional help should be sought. As the global economy goes into meltdown, experts at the Priory Group are coping with escalating levels of depression and related conditions amongst staff in the financial sector, also leading to a rise in people seeking treatment for drink and drug abuse.
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"Future Funding for Mental Health And Substance Abuse: Increasing Burdens For The Public Sector;" Health Affairs: The report, by Katharine Levit, senior research leader at the health care business of
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President Bush on Friday signed into law a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms that included mental health parity legislation (HR 1424). The legislation requires group health plans of 51 or more employees to cover mental illnesses at the same level as physical ailments. It does not require the plans to offer such coverage but it must be equivalent if they do.
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Rising unemployment rates, the worst Wall Street crises since the end of World War II, record home foreclosures. There is plenty of stress to go around. What effect is stress having on our health and what can we do about it? "Prolonged stress, both emotional and physical, impacts the overall cardiovascular status of our patients, particularly their blood pressure," said Keith Churchwell, M.D., executive medical director of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute.
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A report by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, co-funded by the European Commission and launched today at a meeting hosted by the Department of Health in London, provides data not hitherto available on mental health policy and practice across the WHO European Region. It also highlights important information gaps.
Mental Health News From Medical News Today
Arthritis is the nation's most common cause of disability. The number of adults with doctor-diagnosed arthritis is projected to increase to 67 million by 2030, and a large proportion of U.S. adults will limit their activity as a result, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mental Health News From Medical News Today
According to a study published on bmj.com, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act may not be adequately protecting the 25% of terminally ill patients in the State of Oregon who have depression and then choose physician assisted suicide.
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Psychiatrists and psychologists nationwide say they are seeing more patients limiting mental health treatments to save money amid broad financial concerns, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Australians with mental illness smoke at four times the rate of the general population, says a new study from the University of Melbourne. The study, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, says despite smoking halving among Australia's general population over the past 20 years there has been little change in smoking rates among people with psychiatric disabilities.
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Researchers from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center (BHCRC) presented exciting new research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS. The three-day conference, held in Providence, R.I.
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The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO) today launches "It's All In Your Head!" an initiative to promote awareness of the work of the MDAO and dispel myths about mental illness. Volunteers will be in the Yonge-Eglinton subway station and the Yonge-Eglinton Centre to hand out "heady" information to commuters during the evening rush hour. Mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder will affect one in five individuals at some point in their life.
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A new Mental Health minister has been announced following the recent cabinet reshuffle. Phil Hope has been newly appointed to this role. Paul Corry Director of Public Affairs Rethink said: "The Care Services brief, which includes mental health, has been upgraded - to "minister of state", and it's not before time. With 1 in 4 of us being affected by a mental health condition as some stage in our lives, this is a very weighty portfolio.
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Therapists and counsellors are urgently needed to volunteer their services and help homeless people in London over the festive season as part of Crisis Christmas, running from Tuesday 23 December - Tuesday 30 December 2008. Volunteers in the Befriending Service work with the more withdrawn guests at Crisis Christmas, supporting them to access the services on offer in the centres.
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Today's publication of the Mental Welfare Commission's annual report highlights the number of children and young people who received care and treatment in adult psychiatric wards in Scotland during 2007-08. Commenting on the figures, the watchdog called for NHS Boards to make sure that they are fulfilling their legal duty to provide services and hospital accommodation that are appropriate to the needs of under-18 year olds.
Mental Health News From Medical News Today
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses passage of mental health parity legislation as part of the financial bailout of Wall Street firms, President Bush's approval of a stopgap resolution to keep the government operating and a wide-ranging package of veterans' health bills in this week's "
Mental Health News From Medical News Today
President Bush on Friday signed into law a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms that included mental health parity legislation (HR 1424), the New York Times reports (Pear, New York Times, 10/6). Bush approved the bill soon after the House on Friday voted 263-171 to pass it.
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Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that a study published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found once-daily VYVANSE significantly improved Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adults within the first week of treatment. This study is the phase 3 pivotal trial submitted to the FDA and supported the approval in April 2008 of VYVANSE for adults with ADHD.
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