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Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

...lowed a public outcry after a series of murders by mentally ill people. People with psychiatric problems commit around 60 murders per year. Yet according to the Lancet's report, , patients in mental health wards may be in bigger danger than the public....

Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

...there was a very real shortage of services for the mentally ill and inconsistent training of harried ER staff. Emergency rooms can be battlegrounds. They often are the last resort for psychiatric patients in crisis -- some patients are so out of control and aggressive that mental health facilities will not ...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...exploring injury proneness by measuring how people mentally prepare and react to unanticipated events. To id...e reproduced safely in the lab to study how people mentally prepare and react to unanticipated events. Visual memory, verbal memory, processing speed, and react...

US Health Insurance Firms Suspend Sales, Promise to End Fraudulent Practices

...forged signatures, signed up the dead and enrolled mentally disabled people without consulting their guardians, state insurance official said. ``The marketing practices of Medicare Advantage carriers have led to virtual lawlessness in Oklahoma,'' Kim Holland, Oklahoma's insurance commissioner, told the Sen...

Young People And Doctors Building A Healthy Relationship

...iality. There is a lot happening physically and mentally in the busy lives of young people. They need to know that their GP is available to provide advice and to look after their health and can keep it confidential, Dr Capolingua said. Developing a trusting relationship with a doctor early on will help...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...dness and eventually targeting of the Jews and the mentally retarded. There is "ample circumstantial evidenc... could be the reason he attempted to eliminate the mentally retarded. He said well-documented aspects of Hitler's behaviour and health such as mood swings, pa...

JK Rowling Intensifies Her Disabled Children's Rights Crusade

...ing is strengthening her crusade for the rights of mentally ill and disabled children in East European mental ...at I would be driving past Charles Bridge to visit mentally handicapped and abandoned children, and that nearly all my new Czech acquaintances would turn out to...

K-Fed Thinks Britney is 'mentally Unstable'!

...ssure juggling fame and family. "He thinks she's mentally unstable and too young to be a mom," Us Weekly quoted the source, as saying. The source also reveals that Federline expects to get "full custody" of his and Britney's sons - Sean Preston and Jayden James - 'one day'. And, for his kids' sake, the ...

Mentally Ill Patients are Affected by Their Own Negative Perceptions

Individuals often are culturally labeled as a mentally ill person, which can affect negatively their soci...ically, she found that patients perceptions of the mentally ill affect the way they see themselves and that these perceptions may exacerbate their mental illnes...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...d respiratory distress. Many survivors are left mentally or physically handicapped. Every year, Japanese Encephalitis strikes the northern part of India, especially Uttar Pradesh, raising questions of hygiene and immunization....

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...th his wife Nancy on who should take care of their mentally challenged son only days before he killed them and went on to commit suicide. An attorney for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Jerry McDevitt says, ''I think it's fair to say that the subject of caring for that child was part of what made thei...

Husband Cools His Heels in Jail After Kidnapping Wife from Hospital

...come to the hospital with a knife and seemed to be mentally disturbed. An arrest of McCarthy followed, even though he denied threatening his wife. He said, "I pleaded with her not to have a breast augmentation. We had a further chat and she agreed not to have it done." The couple was only a year into th...

Study Examines the Pathologization of Guantanamo Suicides

... detainment in much the same way that those deemed mentally ill may be involuntarily and indefinitely incarcerated. U.S. military representations of the detainees - or of purported "Islamic terrorists" more generally as suicidal (and homicidal) fanatical madmen categorize the detainees in ways that make p...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...ok valproate had an IQ low enough to be defined as mentally retarded. This was against 12 percent for carbamazepine, 9 percent for lamotrigine, and 12 percent for phenytoin. The results are published in the journal Neurology. Children whose mothers took carbamazepine scored an average of 93 points on the ...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

...ipolar disorder and major depression. Although the mentally ill have high accident and suicide rates, about 3 ...times internists disregard medical symptoms of the mentally ill, chalking them up to the patient's disorder, says Kenneth Duckworth of the National Alliance on ...

Diet for Autism

...of dysfunction - from those who are physically and mentally challenged to those who look innocuously normal. Although there are several factors such as genetics, that are implicated in autism,little is known about the disease itself or its real cause(s). Gastrointestinal abnormalities are common in autist...

Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

... his Kabul clinic. "It is not a killer disease but mentally people suffer. We have to deal with it." The sores are treated with a course of injections, or cauterized to kill the parasites. Amin's clinic has the only laser cauterizing machine in Afghanistan. Electric cauterizing machines are also effective ...

Exposure to Epilepsy Drug During Pregnancy Can Increase Risk of Mental Defects in Newborns

... the IQ test is average and below 70 is considered mentally retarded, according to researchers. Twenty-four percent of children whose mothers took Depakote had IQs below 70, compared with 13% for Tegretol, 11% for Lamictal and 12% for Dilantin. According to researchers, about 2% of all children have IQs below...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

... mental training, such as meditation. Seeing and mentally processing something takes time and effort, says psychology and psychiatry professor Richard Davidson of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the Waisman Center. Because a person has a finite amount of brainpower, paying close atte...

Million Mentally Ill in India

The mentally ill are the most vulnerable members of our society...aced in reaching the unreached population i.e. the mentally ill who have been away from benefits of modern treatment due to stigma, ignorance and paucity of ser...

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