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April 17, 2009

 

Long-Term Tolerability and Safety Data of Abilify(R) in Combination Treatment for Patients With Bipolar I Disorder
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance  
ABILIFY® , when used in combination with lithium or valproate, is a generally well-tolerated long-term treatment for patients with Bipolar I Disorder, who are partially non-responsive to lithium or valproate monotherapy.

 

Edison professor puts a bit of himself in his first novel
Naples Florida Weekly
 

Here's just a part of Roger Forsythe's recipe for great art: tenacity, sacrifice, imagination, pragmatics and a controlled illness. In the case of Mr. Forsythe, an English literature professor at Edison State College, the illness is bipolar disorder � but he's made lemonade of the lemon, he says.

 

College Hospital to pay $1.6 million in homeless dumping settlement
Los Angeles Times  
L.A. city attorney's office says the hospital left more than 150 mentally ill patients on skid row streets. The hospital denies wrongdoing in what prosecutors say is their biggest dumping case to date. Doctors at College Hospital diagnosed Steven Davis as suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. Doctors at the Costa Mesa mental institution prescribed him...

 

Harrison overcomes bipolar disorder
Birmingham News  
ALEXANDER CITY - Denavia Harrison was having a good day. The Benjamin Russell softball player slugged a home run, her sixth of the season, added a double and a single, and drove in four runs while scoring three times.

 

Parents of missing Boynton Beach woman fear worst
WPTV  
The Lurie’s say their daughter is bipolar and has battled alcoholism since her twenties. Tina and Williamson met in rehab in the fall. ...
  

Man gets probation in shaking of 2-year-old son
The Salem News  
A Danvers man with a history of mental illness will spend the next three years on probation after being found guilty of shaking his young son, who was misbehaving. Among the conditions that Peter Daniels, 39, will have to obey is that he take the medications his doctors have prescribed for the bipolar disorder that has led to at least five hospitalizations since 1991, Salem ...

 

No longer homeless, former mogul envisions future
Asbury Park Press  
... the various diagnoses he says the doctors have come up with over the years: "Manic depressive ... schizophrenic ... homicidal .. suicidal .. bipolar . ...

 

I was raped, beaten, addicted to crack and diagnosed as bipolar ...
Daily Mail  
By Daily Mail Reporter She appeared full of life and confidence during her burlesque routine on Britain's Got Talent last night but curvy dancer Fabia Cerra ...
  

Mom pleads for Lynn girl to return home
Boston Herald  
The teen has bipolar disorder and her mother fears her condition has worsened because she’s been off medication. Lopes is listed with the National Center ...
  

Donation to help Painting Pathways members
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter  
MANITOWOC Heather Koeppe was a responsible and employed person until bipolar disorder caused her to lose her confidence, her sense of purpose and a few jobs, she said.

 

'Me vs. Me': Ex-marketing director gets playful
San Francisco Chronicle  
After the Napa artist, 34, quit - just in time for the economic crisis - he was diagnosed as bipolar. "It hit me that I needed to get back to what was fun, ...

 

Fertility clock hardly haunts men
Dickinson Press  
... mental retardation of unknown etiologies; autism; bipolar disorder; and 25% of schizophrenia cases are correlated with advanced paternal age. ...

 

One Year of Listening to Patients
New York Times - United States
We heard from Jacqueline Castine of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., who was diagnosed at the age of 57 with bipolar disorder, and whose son also suffered from ...

 

Abbott profit up 53% on one-time items
Chicago Tribune  
Sales of the bipolar-disorder treatment known as Depakote dropped 65 percent to $129 million, however, thanks to the inroads of new generic-drug competition ...

 

Company to sell supplement for relief of bipolar disorder
Kitchener - Waterloo Record  

LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. (Apr 15, 2009) -- The makers of a nutritional supplement that appears to help people with bipolar disorder say they will soon be able to sell their product on store shelves.

 

Bar suspends Radford lawyers license - roanoke.com
The New River Valley Current
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board on Tuesday suspended the law license of a Radford lawyer, saying he suffers from an impairment related to substance abuse and bipolar disorder. Robert Max Jenkins' license to practice law is suspended indefinitely, according to a Virginia State Bar consent order.

 

Relatives Allege NYPD Brutality on Mentally Ill Man
WPIX 11 New York
NEW YORK (WPIX) -- The family of a mentally-ill man announced plans Tuesday to sue six New York City Police officers after they claim the cops brutally beat the 26-year-old, Brooklyn man. Family members say the beating took place over the weekend when the police officers were called to Gamalier Reyes' home for assistance.   Reyes, who is bipolar and suffers from schizophrenia, was reportedly in ...

 

Cephalon’s Nuvigil, A Treatment for Jet Lag and Bipolar Depression?
Gerson Lehrman Group  
Bipolar depression, as well as other potential indications in registrational trials such as adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia, is where the long-term ...
  

Whats the evidence for olanzapine to prevent a relapse?
guardian.co.uk  
There is some evidence that olanzapine works well to stop the symptoms of bipolar disorder from coming back. When your symptoms come back, doctors say you ...
  

Treatment for mental illness takes many forms
CU Columbia Spectator  
But Andrew’s problem isn’t just drug abuse—he was also recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder after spending several months in counseling. ...

 

Alternative is great but not cure-all
Canton Repository
Our question is, what happens to the severe mentally ill, ie, the bipolar and-or schizophrenic population whom our prisons in Ohio have a large volume of? ...

 

Across the US, Stress Varies by Region
Forbes  
... such as how many people have a diagnosable mental health problem such as bipolar or anxiety disorder versus how many are just feeling upset because of ...

 

Cardiff researchers to test first online treatment for bipolar depression
icWales  

THE world'€™s first internet-based education treatment for patients with bipolar depression will be tested by researchers at Cardiff University.

 

Whats going on?
Detroit Free Press  

Jacqueline Castine is among the millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. On Tuesday, Castine will give a two-hour class on "Living with Bipolar Disorder" at the Community House, 380 S. Bates St., Birmingham. Cost is $25. To register, call 248-644-5832.

 

 

 

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