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Psychologist to speak May 19 on schizophrenia

UT San Antonio - (May 15, 2006)--Nationally renowned mental health researcher Steve Lopez will speak on minority mental illness from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Friday, May 19 in Business Building Room 3.01.02 at the UTSA 1604 Campus. The colloquium, free and open to the ...

Prezzy gets 30 years for killing his wife

Times and Democrat - It's been nearly four years since Mark Anthony Prezzy stopped his wife's vehicle at a busy Orangeburg intersection and shot her to death before attempting to kill himself. On Monday, Mark Anthony Prezzy appeared before 1st Circuit Judge Jackson ...

TA soldiers' 'Iraq illness risk' (BBC News)

A quarter of part-time soldiers who served in the 2003 Iraq conflict experienced a mental health disorder, a study finds.

Many Poorer New Yorkers Suffered Post-9/11 PTSD

WAFF - MONDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Long after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, low-income, immigrant patients in New York City continued to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers report. The study also concluded ...

What do we know about the links between recreational drug use, sexual risk behaviour and HIV? (Aidsmap)

Two doctors from San Francisco have written a review article describing the effects of recreational drugs on sexual risk taking, HIV disease progression and HIV treatment.

A Core of Despair, a Shadow of Nemesis

New York Times - I don't think I will ever eat Greek pastry again without thinking of Mr. Z., or of his wife's expression as the nurse and I left Mr. Z.'s house for the last time. He was not a complainer, and even during his final days, Mr. Z. seemed grateful to the ...

Music Therapy For Elders

WLBZ 2 - Dirigo Pines in Orono hosted a workshop on music therapy and how it can be used with the elderly. Workers learned how it can help decrease isolation and depression in older people as well as stimulate memory and physical movement. Although there is ...

Eileen Ambrose

Baltimore Sun - We shred our papers and delete anything "phishy" to prevent thieves from posing as us and stealing our money. Now there's a new twist to watch out for -- medical identity theft. This is when thieves use your name or insurance information to get ...

TOPICS & TRENDS: Pro-Pot Lobby Goes to Pot

Age Venture - 01. MYTH: Marijuana is harmless. 01. FACT: Can lead to a host of significant health, social, learning, and behavioral problems at a crucial time in a young person's development. Getting high also impairs judgment, which can lead to risky decision ...

Toyota FJ Cruiser — The Legend Lives Again

Canada Free Press - Once upon a time, when the earth was young, Toyota Land Cruisers roamed the lands. Keen-eyed wheel watchers would often find Toyota's heavy duty four by four side by side with — or instead of — the famous Land Rover as they navigated a wide variety ...

Military Vets Wage War Against Obesity

13 WREX-TV - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans ...

Group accepts first female member

Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald - CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Heels, the volunteer group that supports Cheyenne Frontier Days, has voted to admit its first female member. Liz Escobedo, who plans to spend her 34th summer volunteering at Frontier Days this year, is the first woman to belong to ...

Jolly Rogers

Slate - Earlier this month, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared the health of a group of men in the United States with that of a very similar group of men in England. The researchers found a striking difference in the quality ...

Annual walk to raise mental health awareness

Austin Daily Herald - Raymond Kolb, Veryl C. Lord and Erik Linscott relax at the Bridge in Austin. The center is one of the many sponsors for the upcoming Mental Health Awareness Walk. Sheila Donnelly What do Patty Duke, Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Winston ...

Eileen Ambrose

Baltimore Sun - We shred our papers and delete anything "phishy" to prevent thieves from posing as us and stealing our money. Now there's a new twist to watch out for -- medical identity theft. This is when thieves use your name or insurance information to get ...

SAD 34 superintendent breaks his silence

Bar Harbor Times - BELFAST - SAD 34 Superintendent M. Robbins Young said this week he was scolded by the school board's attorney for visiting the central office April 13 and that the board has been preventing him from returning to work. Young granted The Republican ...

The Amazing Mind-Body Workout

News Channel 2000 - Practiced for centuries by Chinese monks greeting the rising sun, Tai Chi has been used for defense, meditation and therapy. Although Chinese medicine has been considered an "alternative" practice, Tai Chi has improved the physical conditions and ...

Military veterans wage war against obesity

MSNBC - COLUMBIA, S.C. - Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the ’60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans ...

Military Vets Wage War Against Obesity

KFMB - Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans Affairs hospital. He's ...

Eileen Ambrose

Baltimore Sun - We shred our papers and delete anything "phishy" to prevent thieves from posing as us and stealing our money. Now there's a new twist to watch out for -- medical identity theft. This is when thieves use your name or insurance information to get ...

Go, Do, Learn

Herald-Mail - MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Grandmaster Leo Fong will present a 50-plus fitness physiology class from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at Otterbein United Methodist Church, 549 N. Queen St. Men and women ages 50 and older are invited to attend a program on ...

Originally published May 15, 2006

Baltimore Sun - We shred our papers and delete anything "phishy" to prevent thieves from posing as us and stealing our money. Now there's a new twist to watch out for -- medical identity theft. This is when thieves use your name or insurance information to get ...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy Dressed Like Michael Jackson In Boozefest

Post Chronicle - Representative Patrick Kennedy, the disgraced U.S. congressman, was himself a real thriller when he got dressed up like Michael Jackson for an all-out booze fest, according to a published report. The National Enquirer dishes the dirt: 'The ENQUIRER ...

David Pugliese, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen

National Post - OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces has determined the family of a soldier who was killed during a 1992 training exercise doesn't deserve financial compensation for their suffering, despite a report last year that blasted the military for putting the man's ...

Clinical Data Announces Management Reorganization and Plan to Spin Off ...

Genetic Engineering News - NEWTON, Mass., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Clinical Data, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLDA) announced today a reorganization of its management team. Drew Fromkin, previously executive vice president of Clinical Data and president of its PGxHealth division ...

15 May 2006 (PharmiWeb)

Resources | Features | Movement in cancer vaccine developm... DailyUpdates 12th May, 2006 (click here for entire bulletin): Today appears to be cancer vaccine day with two important announements being made.

'Shocking failures and delays' in treatment of post-natal depression (Daily Telegraph)

Treatment for mothers suffering post-natal depression is "seriously deficient" in many parts of Britain, a study has found.

Mothers 'let down by depression care' (Daily Mail)

Mothers who suffer depression during and after their child's birth are being failed by mental health services. The majority are given drugs instead of offered counselling, a leading charity has found

Lilly Submits Cymbalta Supplemental New Drug Application for ...

dBusinessNews.com - Indianapolis - INDIANAPOLIS -- Eli Lilly and Company today announced the recent submission of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Cymbalta® (duloxetine HCl) for the treatment of generalized anxiety ...

Vets Wage War Against Obesity

LiveScience.com - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans ...

Military Vets Wage War Against Obesity

WCCO - (AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans ...

Military veterans wage war against obesity, related diseases

WBZ-AM - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans ...

Fighting to become who they've always been

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - What if you could take a pill and be perfect - the girl you've always been, buried beneath unwanted body hair and testosterone, the man trapped in a female body? An instant, painless transformation. What if it meant losing your job, alienating your ...

'Shocking failures and delays' in treatment of post-natal depression (Daily Telegraph)

Treatment for mothers suffering post-natal depression is "seriously deficient" in many parts of Britain, a study has found.

Mothers 'let down by depression care' (Daily Mail)

Mothers who suffer depression during and after their child's birth are being failed by mental health services. The majority are given drugs instead of offered counselling, a leading charity has found

Motherly love (Guardian Unlimited)

Society: Care for post and antenatal depression has improved greatly over the last 60 years, but there is still much to do, says Paul Farmer.

Health services failing depressed mothers (Guardian Unlimited)

New mothers are being failed by mental health services, according to research which claims that doctors lack knowledge of how to treat postnatal depression, and women are made to wait months to receive basic services.

Services fail depressed mothers (Guardian Unlimited)

Specialist postnatal help seen as postcode lottery.

Mechanism Of Lithium Action For The Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder

Medical News Today - Calcium is a common intracellular signaling molecule with a wide range of functions in the brain, and the regulation as well as dysregulation of calcium signaling via the principal intracellular calcium release channel, InsP3R1, has been linked to ...

Military justice: Denied

Ottawa Citizen - The Canadian Forces has determined the family of a soldier who was killed during a 1992 training exercise doesn't deserve financial compensation for their suffering, despite a scathing report last year that blasted the military for putting the man's ...

Beating colon cancer

Connellsville Daily Courier - Three years ago, when she was just 19, Denelle Wirth believed her life was about to end. It was the only thought in the Jeannette woman's mind when she heard the words, "You have cancer." "I thought I was going to die," said Wirth, of Jeannette ...

A decade of meth A decade of meth

Lincoln Journal Star - A decade ago this month, a 31-year-old Lincoln chemist was experimenting with some ingredients needed to manufacture methamphetamine. He also was using and dealing meth he received from a source in Oklahoma. The night of May 6, 1996, one of his ...

Treatment shortfall for post natal depression (icWales)

MOTHERS who suffered from postnatal depression have revealed the nightmare of attempting to receive treatment across Wales.

Mechanism Of Lithium Action For The Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder (Medical News Today)

Calcium is a common intracellular signaling molecule with a wide range of functions in the brain, and the regulation as well as dysregulation of calcium signaling via the principal intracellular calcium release channel, InsP3R1, has been linked to many normal cellular processes as well as neurological diseases. [click link for full article]

Military Vets Wage War Against Obesity

WNYT - Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans Affairs hospital. He's ...

Health & Fitness Calendar

San Antonio Express News - 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Barrio Family Health Center, 1102 Barclay. (210) 233-7000. Free. Women's Health Day will provide medical screenings for blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol, mammograms for qualifying women, screenings for anxiety and ...

Military veterans wage war against obesity, related diseases

Canton Repository - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the ’60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a ...

Studies to aid people with depression (Yorkshire Post Today)

Emma Dunlop MENTAL health groups have welcomed a Government study in Doncaster that has looked into talking therapies for people with depression, but say more could be done. (15/05/2006 09:25:31)

Treatment shortfall for post natal depression (icWales)

MOTHERS who suffered from postnatal depression have revealed the nightmare of attempting to receive treatment across Wales.

Health services failing depressed mothers (Guardian Unlimited)

New mothers are being failed by mental health services, according to research which claims that doctors lack knowledge of how to treat postnatal depression, and women are made to wait months to receive basic services.

Services fail depressed mothers (Guardian Unlimited)

Specialist postnatal help seen as postcode lottery.

For a Kennedy, Fighting the Stigma of

Lucianne.com - WASHINGTON — Patrick J. Kennedy was keeping an uncomfortable secret. Representative Kennedy, scion of America's most loved and hated Democratic clan, has been a passionate advocate for ending the stigma of mental illness; he told voters years ago ...

My kids are wrecks

Salon - My father was bipolar and alcoholic. My brother is depressed and alcoholic. Although I didn't know it when we had children, alcoholism is in my husband's family as well. During the early '80s, when I had my kids, conventional wisdom was that parents ...

Antidepressant May Raise Suicide Risk

New York Times - After analyzing data from clinical trials, GlaxoSmithKline has sent letters to doctors warning that its antidepressant drug Paxil appears to increase the risk of suicide attempts in some young adults. The company said it had changed the labeling on ...

For a Kennedy, Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Becomes Personal

New York Times - Representative Kennedy, scion of America's most loved and hated Democratic clan, has been a passionate advocate for ending the stigma of mental illness ; he told voters years ago of his treatment for depression and cocaine abuse. But when he slipped ...

Step-by-step way to shed 100 pounds

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Steve Vaught walks along Rt. 46 in Little Ferry, N.J., Tuesday, just a few miles from New York and the end of his year-long walk across America.. Click photo for larger image. Steve Vaught walked into New York City to some attention on Tuesday ...

Health fair booths offer screenings plus latest medical information

Rapid City Journal - RAPID CITY -- People attending the 24th annual Black Hills Area Health & Human Services Fair on Saturday, April 29, can expect to see the usual medical items that are used to test for high blood pressure, screen for diabetes and check cholesterol ...

Military veterans wage war against obesity, related diseases

Gainesville Sun - Marine Corps veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang but now is fighting a new enemy: obesity. Working with the doctors at the Veterans Affairs hospital here, Baseer-El devised an exercise and diet regimen that helped him shed 100 ...

Postnatal depression mums suffer treatment nightmare (icWales)

MOTHERS who suffered from postnatal depression have revealed the nightmare of attempting to receive treatment across Wales.

Postnatal depression mums suffer treatment nightmare (icWales)

MOTHERS who suffered from postnatal depression have revealed the nightmare of attempting to receive treatment across Wales.

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