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Schizophrenics At Greater Risk Of Developing Chronic Diseases

...nt, affecting both quality of life and delivery of psychiatric and medical services. "This work highlights the need for integrated medical and psychiatric care, and the long-term deleterious effects on physical health of living with chronic mental illness...

A Nurse’s Job Is Nerve Breakin

...d nurses, licensed practical nurses and registered psychiatric nurses. The overall observation was that nurses face a variety of physical and emotional challenges in a demanding and hectic workplace and it’s certainly affecting their well-being. The statistics shows that about 10 % were injured while on duty...

Suicide Rate Among NY's Ethnic Women is Alarming

...ation, the stress of immigration and a shortage of psychiatric and counselling services, according to advocates who attended a hearing in Lower Manhattan on Friday. In New York, Asian women 65 and older have a suicide rate of 11.6 per 100,000, more than double the rate for non-Hispanic white women in that age ...

Mental Disorders Strike First Time Moms More

...omen without children were seldom seen admitted in psychiatric wards. Statistics show that mothers with children stand four times more risk than those who do not have children. 'Men who become fathers are, also unprotected from developing mental illnesses following parenthood and its related stress. But only ...

From Six to Sixty, Everyone is Prone to Anorexia

... five times more prevalent than Anorexia. They are psychiatric disorders that can prove to be lethal. Anorexic at 10! Daughter of Marg Oaten (who wants to be anonymous) developed Anorexia at the age of ten and is fighting the disorder from past 12 years. She developed the disorder as she developed a fear to...

Research In A New Direction To Develop Innovative Psychotropic Drugs

...Because of limitations in animal models of complex psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, investigators were often not discouraged by negative results in key tests, particularly if other data seemed encouraging. Roth was surprised by his own findings: "When reviewing this data, we found that animal models wer...

Good English Gives Better Mental Health To Asian Americans

.... Asian Americans in general have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other nati...uffer from depression, anxiety, substance abuse or psychiatric disorder in their lifetime than were US-born women, according to this first national epidemiological...

Mentally-Ill Patients Get Re-Hospitalized More

... with schizophrenia, who require to be admitted in psychiatric hospitals. Mental illness can be very trying for patients and their families. Hospitalization is necessary at times, but hospital stays themselves may create problems, the report observes. 'We found that mental illness and hospitalization for men...

Odds Are That Gamblers Have More Health Problems

...disorders such as alcoholism, obesity, smoking and psychiatric illnesses, they found that problem and pathological gamblers were more likely to report angina and cirrhosis of the liver compared to at-risk or low-risk participants. Pathological gamblers were also more likely to have elevated heart rate and other ...

Dementia Care Intervention Eases Burden for Families

...he experience can contribute to the development of psychiatric and physical illnesses and increased risk for death among the caregivers. The researchers found that, overall, the intervention was effective across racial and ethnic groups, with the most significant improvements among Hispanic and white caregive...

Mixed Wards Cause Trauma in Female Patients in Britain

...keswoman of the Patients Association. In certain psychiatric wards just a thin curtain divides a room. 'The Government's pledge to get rid of mixed sex wards is yet another one of Tony Blair's broken promises,' Mrs Murphy said. 'Allowing trusts to simply put curtains up between patients makes no difference t...

A New Study To Examine ADHD's Role In Smoking

...t smoking in the U.S. occurs among people who have psychiatric conditions, such as alcohol or drug abuse, major depression, anxiety and ADHD. One line of research has shown that smokers with these conditions 'self-medicate' their symptoms with nicotine, the primary addictive substance in tobacco. Participants...

Adolescents With A History Of Arrest Are At Greater Risk For HIV Infection

...ance use and unprotected sex, suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalizations. "We found that adolescents with a history of arrest were significantly more likely to use alcohol and drugs, engage in unprotected sex acts, use a substance during sex and have significant mental health histories than adolescents ...

Caution:Tamiflu ‘tames’ flu but psychiatric side effects now reportd

...y agencies are still unsure whether these abnormal psychiatric symptoms reported are actually caused by the drug ...te of the U.S agency reveals that Tamiflu did show psychiatric symptoms in as many as 103 people during the period between Aug. 29, 2005, to July 6, 2006, inclus...

Breast Cancer Patients Suffer From Psychological Problems

...t screening// criteria for emotional distress or a psychiatric disorder, including major depression and post-trau... Dartmouth Medical School and colleagues conducted psychiatric and functional screening of 236 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Their findings indicate ...

Drop in Number of Psychiatric admissions

The latest report on psychiatric units' activity from the Health Research Board (HR...as revealed that the number of admissions to Irish psychiatric units and hospitals //continued to fall in 2005. Admissions came down from 22,400 in 2004 to 21,253...

Steroid Use Linked to Crimes

...lice, substance abuse clinics, customs agents, and psychiatric facilities. Three of the 214 steroid users were women. The association between steroid use and convictions for weapons offenses was explained by researchers as a need among those committing armed robberies or collecting crime-related debts might fe...

Sexual assault cases in mixed-sex psychiatric wards on the high

...ses. According to the government, only 1% of the psychiatric wards have mixed sex. Mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the charity Sane, said, "These revised figures are likely to be the tip of the iceberg. " "Psychiatric units have become places which are rife with aggression and f...

Childhood Stress May Cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

...ir medical history, and were interviewed to detect psychiatric disorders, according to Newswise wire. In the final analysis, it was found individuals with CFS had higher overall trauma scores than those without CFS. Exposure to trauma increased the risk of CFS between three and eight times, depending on the ty...

Risks of Suicide among Black Americans

...urther they found that Black Americans suffering a psychiatric disorder were eight times prone to attempting suic...sk of suicide went up higher with a combination of psychiatric disorders existing in a person....

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