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January 3, 2007

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Man charged with killing his landlord, setting fire
San Jose Mercury News
Santa Clara County prosecutors Friday charged a 28-year-old lodger with fatally stabbing his landlord and then torching the San Jose home they lived in.

Lilly's Patents Stay in Bloom
The Motley Fool
Lawsuits are just a part of doing business in the pharmaceutical industry.

Franklin County man missing since Oct. 9

Struggling to stay open
Bismarck Tribune
A Wilton medical facility that treats patients with mental illnesses faces an uncertain future. "We're hoping we don't have to close," Redwood Village administrator Dana Polk-Simmers said. She doesn't know when a decision will be made.

JEFF GERRITT: Mom won't rest after son's cruel death
Detroit Free Press
Volunteering to raise money for a youth hockey team used to be about as political as Theresa Vaughn would get. That changed after her son Timothy Joe Souders died Aug. 6 in a hot isolated cell at Southern Michigan Correctional Facility. Now she's pushing to change the prison health care system that virtually executed her son.

--Tyson Arrested On DUI & Drug Charges--
Boxing Times
Former heavyweight world champion "Iron" Mike Tyson was released from jail without bond was following an early morning arrest in Buckeye, Arizona, on felony drug possession charges.

FDA Approves First Generic Bupropion Hydrochloride Extended-Release Tablets

The Storm of a Bipolar Child: Experts Still Have Much to Learn About the Juvenile Form of the Illness
RedNova
By Jamie Talan, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jan. 2--At age 4, Jesse was explosive and inconsolable when things didn't go his way. By the time he entered kindergarten in Manhattan, a paranoia had taken over, and he felt the other kids were looking at him strangely.

Travis County combines justice, therapy
Houston Chronicle
A public defender's office solely representing the mentally ill - believed to be the first of its kind in the nation - soon will begin serving Travis County criminal defendants afflicted with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression

Help with highs and lows
Times Leader
KINGSTON - Everyone experiences mood swings. But mood swings take on a different meaning for someone with bipolar disorder, and their behavior can be very difficult for a healthy person - even a close family member - to understand.

What?s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses
New York Times
For most Americans, the biggest health threat is not avian flu, West Nile or mad cow disease. It?s our health-care system.

Be on the Lookout for Warning Signs of Teen Suicide
Newswise
Chase Edwards parents didn't realize that his irritability was more than just adolescent moodiness until he took his life at the age of 12. With the hope of saving others, the Edwards family helped pass a law that will encourage schools to train personnel about the signs of clinical depression in youth.

Neuronal Function May Be Impaired By High Doses Of Lithium-Like Drugs
Medical News Today
New laboratory research suggests that lithium and other drugs that inhibit a particular enzyme, GSK-3 beta, should be used with caution in treating Alzheimer's disease because too high a dose can impair, rather than enhance, neuronal function. Lithium is currently in clinical trials for treating Alzheimer's.

Using lithium for Alzheimer's
The Herald-Sun
New laboratory research suggests that lithium and other drugs that inhibit a particular enzyme, GSK-3 beta, should be used with caution in treating Alzheimer's disease because too high a dose can impair, rather than enhance, neuronal function.

The Genetics Of Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder In Children And Adolescents
Medical News Today
Psychiatric researchers from The Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have announced that they have launched a collaborative research project spearheaded by James Watson, PhD, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, and a team of researchers at Cold Sprin

Mental illness drug payments call
BBC News
Payments to people with severe mental illnesses will encourage them to take their medication, a study suggests.

Woman could get 3 years for falsely claiming to be a nurse, a Ph.D.
Asbury Park Press
A 49-year-old Stafford woman represented herself as a licensed practical nurse in order to get jobs as a private-duty nurse.

Program Promotes Treatment, Not Jail, for Mentally Ill
RedNova
By Tim Potter, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Jan. 3--When a 43-year-old woman entered the Sedgwick County Jail about a month ago, she was living out of a car and using so much crack cocaine that she had become delusional.

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Overeating and substance abuse are similar disorders
Los Angeles Times
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Club stoush bowls out member
The Advertiser
A MAN suffering from bipolar disorder and depression has been barred from membership at a Sydney bowling club after a clash over club bylaws.

Mom abandons 18-year-old under Nebraska safe-haven law
Richmond Times-Dispatch
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can't control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. The woman told officials at BryanLGH Medical Center West that her daughter, who was adopted, is bipolar and has a learning disability, Assistant Police Chief Jim Peschong said today.

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