Bipolar News for March 1, 2007

Bipolar News

March 1, 2007

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Hay calls it quits
sportal.com.au
On the eve of the 2007 season, high-profile defender Jonathan Hay has informed the Kangaroos that he has retired from AFL football. Hay, who suffers from bipolar depression, stated that his immediate retirement was in the best interests of his health, his team-mates and the club.

Genetic Link to Suicidal Tendencies Nailed Down
HealthDay via Yahoo! News
FRIDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- For the third time, geneticists have linked a particular area of chromosome 2 to attempted suicide, a finding which may help identify people at risk and even lead to new drug therapies.

Lawsuit demands care for mentally ill incarcerated veterans
Rocky Mountain News
A federal lawsuit is demanding that Colorado provide mental health care to hundreds of mentally ill inmates and parolees who are military veterans.

Grant helps students learn about illness
The News Journal
National Alliance on Mental Illness-Delaware is presenting Bebe Moore Campbell's book "Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry" at a dozen schools in February to commemorate Black History Month.

Astrazeneca's Seroquel will overtake GlaxoSmithKline's Lamictal by 2010 as the gold standard for the treatment of ...
Pharmalicencing M
February 20, 2007, Waltham, Mass. - Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that AstraZeneca's Seroquel will overtake GlaxoSmithKline's Lamictal as the gold standard in the treatment of bipolar depression by 2010. According to the new report entitled Bipolar Depression: Turning Physician Insight into Projected ...

Delegate Thompson says depression led to his absence
Daily Athenaeum
BECKLEY (AP) --Raleigh County legislator Ron Thompson says his struggle with bipolar depression is the cause of his prolonged absence from state government.

Delegate refused treatment for depression due to 'macho' self-reliance
Charleston Daily Mail
BECKLEY -- By his own reckoning, Ron Thompson slipped without warning into a dark corridor of depression that worsened to the point a sister feared he was on the verge of plunging over the edge, right into a "path of destruction."

Help's here for students with disabilities
Tallahassee Democrat T
The Florida State University Student Disability Resource Center recently opened its doors for an open house, but some students already knew what was inside.

Comparing treatment for mental illness in the community versus prison
WIS News 10 Columbia
(Columbia) February 26, 2007 - WIS' Kara Gormley is taking a first-hand look at treatment people receive behind bars versus what is available in the community.

FDA Grants Pediatric Exclusivity for RISPERDAL(R)
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted pediatric exclusivity for RISPERDALR , based on studies conducted in bipolar 1 disorder and schizophrenia.

New insight into brain disorders
EurekAlert!
The function of an enzyme in the brain -- strongly linked to a number of major brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
-- has been identified for the first time by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK.

Johnson & Johnson psychiatric drug wins patent extension
Asbury Park Press
New Brunswick-based Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal, a psychiatric drug, won a U.S. patent extension based on an approved use to treat children. The patent, originally set to expire in December 2007, will run through June 2008, the company said today in a statement carried by PR Newswire. An extension was given as a result of pediatric exclusivity, granted by the Food and Drug Administration for ...

Hearing focuses on mental health coverage
Delaware County Times
MIDDLETOWN -- In 1995, when U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was 27 years old and a new member of Congress, he became the major sponsor of a bill that would compel insurance companies to cover mental illnesses as fairly as they cover physical illnesses.

Support Groups
The Herald News
Prevent heart disease: 9 to 10 a.m., Specialty Care Pavilion, room 1005, Silver Cross Campus, 1300 Copperfield Ave., Joliet. For women. Discussion topic will address the importance of breakfast and include a demonstration of a quick and easy meal.

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Mental-health resource centre saluted
The Province
Nine years ago, when her then-10-year-old son became suicidal and was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Anderson said she would spend the greater ...

Unique Collaborative Alliance Prepares to Launch a Performance ...
RedOrbit
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), ...

'Voices' arsonist gets prison
Albany Times Union
Schenectady man faces up to 16- year term in torching of two buildings SCHENECTADY -- A city man whose attorney said he struggled with voices commanding him to set fires will spend up to 16 years in state prison for a pair of arsons. Justin Swint, 19, acknowledged to Schenectady County Judge Karen Drago during sentencing Tuesday morning that he is on medication for being bipolar and ...

Months after teen's suicide, 'Yolanda's Law' advances
Boston Globe
Nicknamed "Yolanda's Law" after a Plymouth teenager who eloquently testified before legislators about her struggles with bipolar disorder, a bill aimed at improving mental health care for an estimated 100,000 Massachusetts children now awaits Governor Deval Patrick's signature.

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Violence and Bipolar Disorder

Never forget that violence is many times associated with a bipolar manic episode, so if your loved one is showing signs of violence, you need to be prepared.

Kay Redfield Jamison writes of the "dark, fierce and damaging energy" of mania, and those with bipolar depression may threaten suicide or even carry through with it.

If your loved one has what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses (DSM-IV), (the "psychiatric bible" put out by the American Psychiatric Association), calls "suicidal ideologies – one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder – get them help immediately.

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