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Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK
During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine...
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Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk
According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood...
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Tackling Childhood Disabilities Through Environment
The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines...
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Dopamine Response Influences How Hard We Work
People with a greater dopamine response in the reward and motivation areas of the brain - the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - tend to try harder, even when the odds are stacked up against them, compared to those with low dopamine response, researchers from University reported in The Journal of Neuroscience. The authors believe that dopamine influences cost-benefit analyses...
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Psychoactive Medication Use Among Children In Foster Care
A few months after the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the use of psychoactive drugs by children in foster care in five states, a national study from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describes prescription patterns over time in 48 states...
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Unruly Kids May Have A Mental Disorder
When children behave badly, it's easy to blame their parents. Sometimes, however, such behavior may be due to a mental disorder. Mental illnesses are the No. 1 cause of medical disability in youths ages 15 and older in the United States and Canada, according to the World Health Organization...
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Yoga May Help Prevent Adolescent Mental Problems
High school students who do yoga may derive psychological benefits, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the April issue of Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics...
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Not All Outrageous Crimes Are Linked To Mental Illness
On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik killed 77 people in a series of attacks in Norway. He first detonated a car bomb outside the Prime Ministers office killing 8 people and then shot dead 69 people on Utøya Island...
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Preventing Risky Behaviors In Adolescence Should Become A Global Health Priority
As childhood and adolescent deaths from infectious diseases have declined worldwide, policymakers are shifting attention to preventing deaths from noncommunicable causes, such as drug and alcohol use, mental health problems, obesity, traffic crashes, violence and unsafe sex practices...
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Vietnam Veterans, Killing In War And Suicidal Thoughts
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)...
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Genes Identified That Boost Or Lessen Risk Of Brain Atrophy, Mental Illness And Alzheimer's Disease
In the world's largest brain study to date, a team of more than 200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide collaborated to map the human genes that boost or sabotage the brain's resistance to a variety of mental illnesses and Alzheimer's disease...
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Should 'Mental Health Checkups' Be Made Part Of Health Care In Schools?
"The early detection of children who are showing psychiatric symptoms or are at the risk of a mental disorder is crucial, but introducing "mental health checkups" as part of health care in schools is not altogether simple," says David Gyllenberg, MD, whose doctoral dissertation "Childhood Predictors of Later Psychotropic Medication Use and Psychiatric Hospital Treatment - Findi...
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Mental Illness Linked To Chronic Physical Illness Risk
A study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reveals that individuals aged 18 and older who had any mental illness, major depressive episodes or serious mental illness in the past year, are more likely to develop diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, cardiovascular disease, or have a stroke, than those not experiencing mental illness. For example, 18...
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Psychiatrists' Labeling Practices May Be Desensitizing The Public
Does the growing number of psychiatric disorder diagnoses have an effect on people with mental illnesses? According to a new study, as definitions of mental illnesses become broader, people who show signs of depression and other common mental illnesses are less likely to evoke a supportive response from friends and family members as are people with other severe mental disorders...
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Dialysis Patients' Survival Affected By Their Mental Health
Dialysis patients whose mental health deteriorates over time have an increased risk of developing heart problems and dying prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN)...
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Mental Illness Prevention - People Don't Like Paying
According to a study published in the April issue of Psychiatric Services, people are less prepared to pay for prevent mental illnesses than for treatments of medical conditions...
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Study Identifies Point When Negative Thoughts Turn Into Depression
Negative thinking is a red flag for clinical depression. Stopping such thoughts early on can save millions of people from mental illness, according research study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University...
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Increase In Suicide Rates In Girls Aged 10-19 In Canada: Suffocation Leading Method For Both Boys And Girls
Suicide rates in Canada are increasing for girls but decreasing for boys, with suffocation now the most common method for both sexes, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Suicide is the second most common cause of death for Canadians aged 10-34, particularly in those aged 10-19 years...
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Positive Outcomes For Children When School-Based Mental Health Support Available
A study of more than 18,000 children across England found that embedding mental health support in schools as part of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) programme led to greater improvements in self-reported behavioural problems among primary pupils...
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Females On Parole And Mental Illness Risk
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Advisory Committee for Women's Services released a new report, which demonstrates that 18 to 49 year old women on probation or parole have an almost two-fold higher risk of experiencing mental illness compared with other women. The study demonstrated that nearly half of the women in this age range who were on probation (49...
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