Bipolar News for June 19, 2006

Bipolar News

June 19, 2006

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Genetics of mental illness
Baltimore Sun - United States
An estimated 5.7 million have bipolar disorder. ... Consider the past. Karen Mann has. She knows that once, lithium was the medication for bipolar disorder. ...

Bipolar genius hard to watch in riveting film
London Free Press - Canada
Daniel Johnston is a brilliant artist who has suffered the indignities of manic-depression most of his adult life. That makes The ...

Man Missing
WOWT - Omaha,NE,USA
... Valparaiso, just north of Lincoln. Gary L. Austgen is on medications for Schizophrenia and Acute Bipolar Mania. He was last seen wearing ...

Bipolar sufferers monitor moods online
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
An innovative Australian study will investigate whether bipolar sufferers can monitor their mood swings and manage their condition using the internet. ...

Mass. woman convicted of murdering husband
AP via Yahoo! News
A jury on Friday convicted a woman of murdering her husband by running him down with a minivan, rejecting her claim that she was insane at the time of the killing.

Online aid for bipolar illness
Herald
A NEW study will investigate whether bipolar disorder sufferers can monitor their mood swings and manage their condition using the internet.

Bipolar sufferers monitor moods online
The Age
An innovative Australian study will investigate whether bipolar sufferers can monitor their mood swings and manage their condition using the internet.

Support group eases depression: Lewes-area woman leads meetings
Delaware State News
DOVER - In retrospect, Margaret McDermott believes she might have suffered from depression for most of her life. Ms. McDermott, 54, leads a Mental Health Association in Delaware-sponsored support group for people dealing with depression and bipolar disorder.

Can maternal anxiety lead to ADHD?
Times Online
When I met Sarah Mercer, 27, she was at the end of her tether. Her daughter Tia, 7, frequently launched savage attacks on her older sibling Paige, an even-tempered nine-year-old who gave little cause for offence. Tia "hated" her mother and said she would like to kill her.

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Credit Card Consolidation Speeds Freedom from Debt from Bipolar Disorder
by David Oliver
There's no question that many people dealing with bipolar disorder have unfortunately developed a tremendous amount of debt.

A patient's view of bipolar
Minnesota Public Radio
After being diagnosed with the most severe form of bipolar disorder, Marya Hornbacher chronicles her journey to accepting and managing her mental life.

Mother's mental illness diagnosed a decade ago
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Sherri Love has a history of mental illness dating back more than a decade. The 47-year-old, on trial in District Court on charges she fatally stabbed her 7-year-old daughter, tried to kill herself multiple times and was diagnosed as bipolar, authorities said.

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Don't be a Victim of Pharmacy Errors

CNN Medical News published a story about a woman who was pregnant and filled a prescription for prenatal vitamins at her local Walgreens in St. Louis, Missouri.

Unfortunately, this woman miscarried within a few weeks of taking the drug. Later, she learned that instead of being given a prescription for her prenatal vitamins (Materna), she had instead been given Matulane, which is a chemotherapy drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease, according to a lawsuit filed this month in federal court.

According to the lawsuit, the drug (Matulane) is intended to interfere with cell growth and DNA development.

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, each year in the United States there are 30 million dispensing errors out of 3 billion prescriptions which occur at outpatient pharmacies. Some errors are minor, and some patients catch them easily; however, other errors can be serious.

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Don't be a Victim of Pharmacy Errors

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