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July 6, 2007

Petersen suicide 'no more likely in jail'
Independent Online
Panieri-Peter said that bipolar mood disorder which Najwa has been diagnosed as having was affected by stress. "Containment" and a regular routine could be ...

Dad gets 7 1/2 to 30 years for torturing daughter
The Tribune-Democrat
By KIRK SWAUGER SOMERSET -- Despite having post-traumatic stress disorder from a horrific childhood and bipolar schizophrenia, Brandon Austill clearly ...

LA bipolar inmate charged with cellmate's death
KESQ
AP - June 30, 2007 3:44 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - A mentally ill prisoner accused of strangling a cellmate at the Los Angeles County jail was not placed in ...

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to ...
Journal of American Medical Association
This has been especially true in the case of bipolar disorder. Until about 10 years ago, bipolar disorder was believed rare in children, not commonly ...

Sally Fields' Golf Obsession
FemaleFirst.co.uk
More recently she has returned to her television roots playing Abby Lockhart's bipolar disorder suffering mum Maggie in ER for which she won an Emmy. ...

Third of Americans Have Alcohol Problems at Some Point
HealthDay via Yahoo!
MONDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- More than 30 percent of Americans say they have had problems with alcohol, a new study shows.

One-third of adults have had some form of alcohol use disorder during their lifetimes
ANI via Yahoo! India News
Washington, July 3 (ANI): A survey conducted by researchers at New York based Columbia University Medical Center has shown that nearly 30 per cent of US adults have had some form of alcohol use disorder at some point in their lifetimes. Some 17.8 per cent of the adults surveyed reported experiencing alcohol abuse, and 12.5 per cent alcohol dependence. The background information in an article ...

Depression nearly killed former ND defensive tackle-turned-actor -- twice: Part 2 of 2
South Bend Tribune
At Jenks High School in Tulsa, Okla., football coach Allan Trimble walks toward his weight room.

Bipolar Success Secret They Don't Tell You
By David Oliver
like bipolar disorder?" He said, "well when you say it like that I guess well maybe longer than a month." So I told him to listen to "My mom's story" which is a cd in my courses/systems. He skipped that cd because he ...

Bipolar LA inmate charged with cellmate death
San Jose Mercury News
Karcher, a convicted killer who has bipolar disorder, was transferred to the jail to face charges of strangling his previous cellmate at the state prison in ...

AP Enterprise: Psych meds use seen high in Vt. prisons
Boston Globe
Seroquel is an anti-psychotic drug designed for people struggling with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Its possible side effects include high blood sugar, which can lead to diabetes, and tardive dyskinesia, which manufacturer AstraZeneca describes as "uncontrollable movements of the face, tongue, or other parts of the body" that can become permanent.

Lilly May Face More Zyprexa Lawsuits After FDA Letter (Update2)
Bloomberg.com
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Lilly & Co. may attract more lawsuits alleging it failed to warn users that a psychiatric drug was linked to diabetes after the pharmaceutical company received a letter from U.S. regulators.

Accused killer called fit to share jail cell
Los Angeles Times
County officials were not told of one prisoner's death until after a second inmate was fatally attacked. A mentally disturbed state prison inmate being transferred into a Los Angeles County jail last month was examined by mental health workers, who declared him fit to be placed in the general jail population.

Hunting for bipolar disorder genes
TurkishPress.com
ANN ARBOR, MI ? Around the globe, scientists are hunting for the specific genes that make millions of people vulnerable to the highs associated with the mania and the lows associated with the depressions of bipolar disorder.

East Texas Woman Talks About Life With Mental Disorder
KLTV 7 Tyler
It's an illness that affects one in every four Americans. Today, almost everyone knows someone suffering from a diagnosable mental disorder. One very brave East Texan knows the impact mental illness has on both a person and society. She is now sharing her life with Bipolar in a book, in hopes society will better understand the illness.

Lilly May Face More Zyprexa Lawsuits After FDA Letter (Update1)
Bloomberg.com
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Lilly & Co. may attract more lawsuits alleging it failed to warn users that a psychiatric drug was linked to diabetes after the pharmaceutical company received a letter from U.S. regulators.

East Texas Woman Talks About Life With Mental Disorder
KLTV
She is now sharing her life with Bipolar in a book, in hopes society will better understand the illness. For more than 25 years, Melody Stroud of Chandler ...

New psychiatric genomics centre
PHG Foundation
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression) affect around 2% of the population in developed countries. ...

Bipolar Disorder: No Improvement With Addition of an Antidepressant
Psychiatric Times
The addition of an antidepressant to a mood stabilizer did not add any benefit for patients with bipolar depression, according to an NIMH-sponsored research project reported in April in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the multicenter study, adding an antidepressant to the regimen also did not increase affective switching to mania.

Don't toss meds based on one study <>
The State
QUESTION: I take Seroquel and Paxil for bipolar disorder and depression. I'm doing OK, but after reading a recent report on a study that found antidepressants are not effective in depression with bipolar disorder, I'm wondering if I should quit taking Paxil. ? K.S., Philadelphia ANSWER: I wouldn't upset the apple cart by stopping the Paxil and risking a destabilization of your mental health. ...

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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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