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San Diego, CA International Bipolar Foundation Offers New Support Groups For Parents and Professionals With Bipolar Disorder
Support Group for Parents with Bipolar Disorder
Australia: GP jaunts 'boosted' drug sales
THE organisers of a course for doctors have boasted how their sessions helped make anti-depressant Zoloft the market-leading brand.
In a remarkably candid claim about the links between medical education and the commercial interests of drug companies, a website for Lifeblood, a private company, says a national training program offered to all GPs delivered a significant boost in sales to the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Australia.
SAVE THE DATE: A Special Evening with GLENN CLOSE
SAVE THE DATE
Friday, November 12, 2010
Join us for a special evening with actress & mental health advocate GLENN CLOSE
Currently we are accepting sponsorships for tables. Seating is extremely limited.
If you or your company, is interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Muffy for availability and sponsorship levels at muffwalk@aol.com.
UK: An exploration to the last degree of mankind’s most extreme conditions.
With the objective to raise research funds and increase awareness about Bipolar Disorder, Tim Medhurst is about to embark on a new endeavor to the North Pole. The Bipolar Expedition is a registered charity with DGR status, so by making a tax deductible donation your proceeds will go towards research and help sufferers with Bipolar Disorder live with the ‘extremes’.
USA: Football's Hard Knocks Educating
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rich Jarzynka was in the mall again Tuesday, at the corner of the food court that had long served as his home office, the place where he had written his book and hand-knitted his soul back together.
U.K.: Bipolar Disorder Hospitalization Represents 60% Of Total Therapy Costs For The
Bipolar Disorder Hospitalization Represents 60% Of Total Therapy Costs For The Disorder, UK
Main Category: Bipolar
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry; Mental Health
Bipolar I Disorder
Physicians: An Option To Treat Manic or Mixed Episodes In Adults.
France: Awareness of metabolic concerns in patients with bipolar disorder: A survey of European psychiatrists
From the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France; and Bipolar Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Objective: An online survey of European psychiatrists assessed awareness of the metabolic syndrome and its influence on the management of bipolar disorder.
USA: Answers About Medicare: Part 3
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Courtesy of the Medicare Rights Center
Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, is taking reader questions on Medicare.“Ask an Expert” is a recurring feature on Bucks where you have the opportunity to question big-brained individuals about a particular area of personal finance or consumer affairs.
Israel: Mental health services in dire state
Public mental health services are in a dire state, the annual state comptroller's report warned yesterday. The report found extensive waiting lists for psychiatric hospitals and clinics and said psychiatric hospitals suffered from neglect.
Australia: Mental health misses out in reforms: critic
The President of the WA Association for Mental Health has criticised the Federal Government's health reform plan.
Keith Wilson, who was a former Labor Health Minister, says it promises little for mental health services.
Mr Wilson says the Rudd Government's $50 billion takeover of public hospital funding which involves hospitals being run by local boards, is a step back in time.
He says the previous WA Labor Government abolished local hospital boards.
