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Minister Moloney Announces 2.6m Euros In Innovation Grants For Disability And Mental Health, Ireland
John Moloney T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Disability and Mental Health announced the first round of grants, totalling over 2.6m euros, awarded by the Genio Trust to support transition from institutional to personalised models of care in disability and mental health services...
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Survey, 30 Percent On Gulf Coast Suffer From Mental Illness In Wake Of Oil Spill
The oil spill ravaging the Gulf of Mexico has inflicted widespread psychological distress among coastal residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, etching scars even deeper than those whipped by Hurricane Katrina, according to a survey by Ochsner Health System, a nonprofit, academic healthcare delivery system...
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2 Potent New Predictors Of Suicide Risk Developed By Psychologists
Two powerful new tests developed by psychologists at Harvard University show great promise in predicting patients' risk of attempting suicide. The work may help clinicians overcome their reliance on self-reporting by at-risk individuals, information that often proves misleading when suicidal patients wish to hide their intentions...
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Study Reveals Nearly 1 In 5 Californians Report Need For Mental Health Services
In a comprehensive new study of mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state - about 4.9 million people - said they needed help for a mental or emotional health problem...
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People With Mental Health Problems Must Be Heard On Welfare Reform, UK
Mind's Chief Executive Paul Farmer has joined a scrutiny group which will advise and challenge the independent review set up to look at the fairness and accuracy of the Work Capacity Assessment (WCA), a move which will ensure that the voices of people with experience of mental distress are represented at the highest level in the ongoing review of welfare reform...
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Will Anyone Be Normal?
This month Journal of Mental Health features a special issue on diagnosing mental illness...
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Symposium To Explore Broadening Partnerships To Spur Medical Advances For War Injuries
The USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium will gather prominent civilian and military researchers and clinicians from across the United States to discuss current research and identify opportunities to collaborate and share information that could speed treatments to wounded warriors...
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Seaside Therapeutics Reports Data From Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study In Fragile X Syndrome
Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. announced data from the largest randomized, placebo-controlled study conducted to date in individuals with fragile X syndrome. In a Phase 2 study of STX209, clinically meaningful improvements on global and specific neurobehavioral outcomes were observed in the general study population...
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Three-Time Victims: Colombians Continue To Face Violence, Neglect, And Stigma As A Result Of Long-Standing Conflict
Victims of the on-going conflict in Colombia not only suffer from the direct consequences of violence caused by the conflict but also from social and institutional stigma and neglect, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
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Labor Increases Mental Health Investment But More Needed, Australia
The AMA welcomes today's announcement of a greater investment by Labor in mental health services. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said it is another downpayment on the bigger long-term investment needed to make a real difference in meeting the growing mental health needs of the community...
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