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February 06, 2009

 

Media Scan
Indianapolis Star  
Living with bipolar disease is a challenging experience; Karla Dougherty writes from personal experience in Less Than Crazy: Living Fully with Bipolar II ...  

 

Bipolar Chandler Author To Hold Book Signing
Tyler Morning Telegraph  
Chandler resident Melody Stroud will hold a book signing for her recently published book, "In My Head: Living My Life with Bipolar," from 1 to 4 pm Saturday ...  

 

Study: Mental Illness Alone is no Trigger for Violence
411mania.com  
My mother suffered from Bipolar Disorder for years before she was actually diagnosed and treated for it. And then of course there's substance abuse ...  

 

Play At Barrington Stage Aims To Destigmatize Mental Illness
Advocate  
"Living With It," written and performed by Frank La Frazia, will bring the light of day to living with bipolar disorder. La Frazia, BSC's director of the ...  

 

Understanding and Managing Adolescent Disruptive Behavior
Psychiatric Times  
This concept is best illustrated through the controversial topic of pediatric bipolar disorder that for many has become synonymous with deficiencies in ...  

 

Mourning Period -- Losing Your 'Old Self' After A Bipolar Diagnosis
EmpowHer  
Being diagnosed bipolar can be a huge trauma. The diagnosis often comes with hospitalization. And, with the diagnosis usually comes medication. ...
 

 

Glenmark Unit Gets US Nod For Lithium Carbonate Capsules
Reuters India -  
The drug is used in the treatment of bipolar disorders and had annual sales of $10 million, the company added in a statememt. ...  

 

Letters
Philadelphia Weekly
 
webhead: Letters -- Bipolar Winter Regarding Jacob Lambert's recent cover story about dealing with his brother David's mental illness: As a psychiatrist working in a community mental health setting, I am all too aware of the systemic deficiencies highlighted in this article. Certainly profit-driven insurance companies and health facilities shoulder some of the responsibility for ...

 

 

Bipolar Disorder Linked To Risk Of Early Death From Natural Causes
Science Daily T
People with bipolar disorder have a higher death rate from natural causes compared to people in the general population of the same age and gender but without mental illness.

 

 

FDA Dictates Suicide Ideation Warning for Antiepileptics Used for Bipolar Disorder
Psychiatric Times
 
The FDA is forcing manufacturers of all antiepileptic drugs to include new warnings of possible suicide ideation in the prescribing information and also to prepare a new Medication Guide to be distributed by pharmacies to consumers.

 

 

Workers Question Backdated Payment
The Daily Citizen  
He takes medications to counteract manic depression and bipolar disorder, said his wife Tammy. She has worked at R&R for five years, and takes medication ...

 

 

Tax Dodger Sentenced In Home Repair Scam
Naperville Sun  
Federal authorities said Qualtier has been convicted of 19 crimes over a 24-year period. A psychologist testified last year Qualtier suffers from bipolar ...

 

 

Big Pharma Gone Wild
AlterNet  
How else do you explain a drug for schizophrenia (1 percent of the population), bipolar disorder (2.5 percent) and autism-related irritability in children 5 ...

 

 

Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research Benefit Show
antiMUSIC
 
A top story from this week. The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research will hold its first benefit concert Sunday, March 1, 2009 …

 

 

Why Bipolar Disorder Patients Don't Take Medicine
Blogcritics.org
 
I miss the mania. I miss me. Going by the title, you all thought I was going to write about a huge white bear of a questionable sexual orientation, huh? Well, no. Not so much.If you know anybody who knows anybody who knows somebody who has bipolar disorder, then you yourself have asked or you have heard someone else ask, "Why don't they take their medicine?" By...

 

 

Graduates Of YMCA Program For Troubled Youths Bemoan Its Loss
Sarasota Herald-Tribune  
Others had severe bipolar disorder. One girl stayed there when she was pregnant, and another had just been emancipated from the state at 16 and had nowhere ...

 

 

The Best Deals On Great Rooms In Marin County
Coastal Post  
That's where we need to be, holding their hand and whispering in their ear, Neurontin for pain, Neurontin for monotherapy, Neurontin for bipolar, ...

 

 

Community Support Groups
Winston-Salem Journal  
TIDES, a support group for adults with clinical depression and bipolar disorder, meets at 10:30 am the first and third Friday and at 7 pm the first and ...

 

 

Community Meetings, Activities
Daily Mail    
The Depression-Bipolar Support Group will meet from 6:30 to 8 pm Wednesday at St. John's Episcopal Church on Quarrier Street. …

 

 

Program Helps Families Cope With Mental Illness
Hilton Head Island Packet -
Their son, Michael, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a senior in college several years before, but had stopped taking his medication. ...

 

 

Magnets Fight Depression -- Research Summary
Ivanhoe  
Other disorders include dysthymia (chronic, less severe depression) and bipolar depression (the depressed phase of bipolar disorder or manic depression). ...

 

 

This Month in Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry  
Bipolar disorder was associated with a decrease in total cortical volume, while white matter volume decrease was related to the genetic risk to develop ...

 

 

A Special Benefit Concert In Memory of Sean Costello
Blogcritics.org  
You see, about a year earlier, Sean was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder — also known as manic-depressive illness. He was going through treatment for this ...

 

 

Man To Stand Trial In Death Of Parents
DetNews.com
... who has been treated for mental illness and diagnosed as bipolar with schizophrenia, was criminally insane at the time of the Feb. 21 deaths. ...

 

 

Safe Haven Meant Kids Finally Got Right Help
Bellevue Leader  

He has a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, one of a number of safe haven children whose post-dropoff psychiatric evaluations have uncovered new mental ...

 

 

Knapp: Six Years Later, Robbins Still Finding His Way
San Francisco Chronicle  
He disappeared from the Raiders' team hotel in San Diego, made a road trip to Tijuana and layered an intoxicated stupor over a bipolar haze. ...

 

 

A Barret Robbins Timeline
San Francisco Chronicle  
Hospitalized, diagnosed as bipolar, and sent to Betty Ford Center. Arrested at Sir Francis Drake Hotel and accused of assaulting a security guard. ...

 

 

Children Should Be Allowed To Be Sad
guardian.co.uk -
The expansion of the "diseases" of childhood - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autistic disorders and now bipolar diagnoses - goes along with the ...

 

 

Big Pharma Breaks The Law And Pays Up
Common Ground.ca  
Zyprexa belongs to a relatively new class of antipsychotic drugs approved to treat people suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ...

 

 

Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Creators Syndicate  
Grace may be suffering from bipolar disorder. Many cases go undetected until adolescence and adulthood, when the behavioral problems become so intolerable ...

 

 

Parents Invited To Workshop On 'Shut Up About ... Your Perfect Kid'
Swampscott Reporter  
“In the last 10 years, the number of US children with bipolar disorder has increased a staggering 40 percent. Additionally, one in 150 children is diagnosed ...

 

 

Psychological Processes In Bipolar Affective Disorder: Negative ...
British Journal of Psychiatry  
Psychological processes in bipolar disorder are of both clinical and theoretical importance. ...

 

 

Jessica Barnes is Missing
Texas Examiner  
Barnes suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and left without any of her medications or other personal belongings. Barnes was last seen in the ...
 

 

Alexza Cuts Staff, Ends Endo Deal
FierceBiotech  
... its lead product candidate in late-stage clinical development for the acute treatment of agitation in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. ...

 

 

Avacta Takes Over TheraGenetics to Expand into Clinical Diagnostics
Genetic Engineering News (press release)  
TheraGenetics is developing pharmacogenetic tests for schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s, and ADHD. “We have made tremendous progress ...

 

 

Mylan Wins FDA Approval For Generic Lamictal
SmartBrief  
The FDA cleared Mylan's version of Lamictal, a treatment for bipolar disorder and epilepsy from GlaxoSmithKline. The approval covers strengths of 25 mg, ...

 

 

Top 12 Depression Drugs
InjuryBoard.com  
ABC News featured patients who chose to come forward to talk about their struggles with major depression and bipolar disorder, coming from a point where it ...

 

 

Off-Label Drugs Prescribed Without Clinical Evidence Call For ...
Modern Medicine  
The agent was approved for schizophrenia in 1997, but is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is the most common off-label use found in ...

 

 

Westporter Pleads Guilty To Lesser Charges
The Hour  
Court records show that Speirs was being treated for bipolar disorder since March. After his arrest, he admitted to drinking vodka and taking medication for ...

 

 

Walking The Regulatory Line
WHYY - Philadelphia,PA,USA
While the FDA okayed Zyprexa specifically for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, doctors frequently prescribe it for depression, dementia, and anxiety. ...
  

 

Doctor Scrutinized For Drug-Firm Ties Gets Kudos From Bipolar Patients, Kin
Boston Globe
 
"Emergency - Andrew." Marcie Lipsitt found that all she had to do was page Dr. Joseph Biederman or another doctor on his pediatric psychiatry team with that message, and she would get a call back within two minutes to help her through her son Andrew's latest violent crisis.

 

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Emerging bipolar treatments 'creating interest in the disorder'
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Emerging treatments for bipolar disorder have resulted in greater interest in the mental health condition, it has been claimed. ...

Why are so many patients ending up in jail instead of in hospitals?
allvoices
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Helium
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