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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
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
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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.
Australia: Beating bipolar
UNSW and the Black Dog Institute will take part in the largest international study of its type to pinpoint the risk factors associated with bipolar disorder.
Around 500 Australians aged 12 to 30 will be recruited to take part in the study, to be conducted in collaboration with four major research institutions in the United States - Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Universities of Michigan, Indiana and Washington.
Recruitment to the study is scheduled to begin this month.
Australia: Hold-out premiers refuse to hand over GST income
THE three hold-out premiers were last night refusing to hand over 30 per cent of their GST despite an extra $1.2 billion sweetener from Kevin Rudd.
The NSW, Victoria and Western Australia premiers said negotiations yesterday on the Prime Minister's health reform package had been productive but they warned they would not part with their GST funds.
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally emerged from yesterday's preliminary discussions to say she remained opposed to handing over GST revenue.
