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Health

Marijuana Use Results in Heart Attack and Stroke As Well

Marijuana Use Results in Heart Attack and Stroke As Well


Just days after a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report revealed that teen...
» read full story May 14th, 2008 - 16:20
Mental Illness Translates in Billions in Lost Earnings for the US

Mental Illness Translates in Billions in Lost Earnings for the US


Mental illnesses became not only a national problem, but they also cost Americans at least $193...
» read full story May 10th, 2008 - 12:58
Adopted Children at Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems

Adopted Children at Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems


University of Minnesota researchers assert that adolescents adopted as infants are twice as likely...
» read full story May 06th, 2008 - 12:30
Autistic Kids Have High Chances of Having Mentally Ill Parents

Autistic Kids Have High Chances of Having Mentally Ill Parents


A comprehensive study of Swedish medical records has turned out an interesting conclusion which may...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 23:34
Report: Employees Fired at Texas Mental Hospitals over Abuse

Report: Employees Fired at Texas Mental Hospitals over Abuse


Disciplinary records on medical employees working at Texas’s 10 state mental hospitals reveal that...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 10:41

Study Says Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Are Depressed


An independent study released Thursday by the Rand Corp. reveals that 20 percent of military...
» read full story April 18th, 2008 - 00:07
Schizophrenia Linked with Array of Genetic Mutations

Schizophrenia Linked with Array of Genetic Mutations


Just days after the death of a pioneer of schizophrenia treatment, Baltimore psychiatrist Dr. Frank...
» read full story March 27th, 2008 - 23:21
Urge for Text Messaging and Emailing May Suggest Mental Disorder

Urge for Text Messaging and Emailing May Suggest Mental Disorder


Text messaging and emailing are fun as long as you don’t become addicted to them, an article in...
» read full story March 27th, 2008 - 14:05
Eating Disorders - a National Concern for Americans This Week

Eating Disorders - a National Concern for Americans This Week


February 25 opens the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, an entire week dedicated to...
» read full story February 26th, 2008 - 15:20
Gene Alteration Corrects Fragile X Syndrome in Mice

Gene Alteration Corrects Fragile X Syndrome in Mice


A recent study shows that researchers have altered a gene and this allowed them to correct many...
» read full story December 20th, 2007 - 11:12
Mental Disorders Still Persist after Hurricane Katrina

Mental Disorders Still Persist after Hurricane Katrina


A survey made by Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr. P.H., of the University of Michigan School of Public...
» read full story December 04th, 2007 - 10:42
Asthma Rates Have Risen in Children After 9/11

Asthma Rates Have Risen in Children After 9/11


Children exposed to the dust cloud following the September 11 collapse of the twin towers were...
» read full story November 29th, 2007 - 13:35
Pfizer’s Chantix under FDA Safety Review

Pfizer’s Chantix under FDA Safety Review


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether a Pfizer Inc. drug has any...
» read full story November 21st, 2007 - 10:50
ADHD Delays Brain Development with Three Years

ADHD Delays Brain Development with Three Years


The brain of the children suffering from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) seems to...
» read full story November 14th, 2007 - 12:08
Schizophrenia Could Be Treated with Fewer Side Effects

Schizophrenia Could Be Treated with Fewer Side Effects


A new drug that addresses schizophrenia symptoms has shown considerably less side effects than the...
» read full story September 03rd, 2007 - 21:54
Couple Busy With Video Games Starve Children

Couple Busy With Video Games Starve Children


A married couple in their early 20s was so obsessed with online video games that their two babies...
» read full story July 18th, 2007 - 15:35
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World

Josef Fritzl’s Wannabe Redemption

Josef Fritzl’s Wannabe Redemption


Josef Fritzl claims the media only told its side of the story by just presenting the facts and not...
» read full story May 07th, 2008 - 16:39
Lawsuit against Veterans Affairs Begins

Lawsuit against Veterans Affairs Begins


Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs insists it has done a lot to improve healthcare...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 12:11
State Offers Settlement To Families Of The Va. Tech Victims

State Offers Settlement To Families Of The Va. Tech Victims


The state is offering a settlement to the families of the Virginia Tech slaughter of...
» read full story March 25th, 2008 - 14:18
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Specials

Politicians Share Personal Alzheimer’s Woes

Politicians Share Personal Alzheimer’s Woes


In an attempt to make the Congress more aware of the catastrophic consequences of Alzheimer’s...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 10:53
Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot

Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot


Marijuana is one of the world’s most commonly used illegal drugs. There are approximately 300...
» read full story May 10th, 2008 - 11:06
Report: Mental Disorders Affect 1 in 5 War Veterans

Report: Mental Disorders Affect 1 in 5 War Veterans


The latest research into the consequences of the Iraq or Afghanistan war concluded that 300,000 of...
» read full story April 18th, 2008 - 10:21
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Music

Britney’s Family Keeps Close After Her Hospital Release

Britney’s Family Keeps Close After Her Hospital Release


After all the drama caused by Britney Spears’ early release from the hospital, the troubled...
» read full story February 07th, 2008 - 14:39
Watch Out, Britney Was Released!

Watch Out, Britney Was Released!


Former pop star Britney Spears has been released from the UCLA Medical Center today after nearly a...
» read full story February 06th, 2008 - 23:32
Britney Spears Held For Another Two Weeks At UCLA

Britney Spears Held For Another Two Weeks At UCLA


Britney Spears will spend 14 more days in the psychiatric ward at UCLA Medical Center, according...
» read full story February 04th, 2008 - 11:52
James Spears Named Britney’s Temporary Conservator

James Spears Named Britney’s Temporary Conservator


On Friday James Spears and his lawyer, Andrew Wallet, were named conservators of the Britney...
» read full story February 02nd, 2008 - 11:19
Britney's Family Blasts Dr. Phil McGraw

Britney's Family Blasts Dr. Phil McGraw


The spokeswoman for Britney Spears' family appeared this morning on the “Today” show blasting Dr....
» read full story January 09th, 2008 - 19:53
Britney Spears Released From The Hospital

Britney Spears Released From The Hospital


According to the media reports, the troubled pop diva Britney Spears was released from the...
» read full story January 06th, 2008 - 01:14
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Science

Causes of Human Depression Studied in Mice

Causes of Human Depression Studied in Mice


One of the most common and mysterious mental illnesses, depression, might have found an explanation...
» read full story July 09th, 2007 - 22:29
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Video Games

AMA Refuses to Label Video Games Addiction As Mental Disorder

AMA Refuses to Label Video Games Addiction As Mental Disorder


A proposal filed by the Maryland State Medical Society to label video games addiction as a mental...
» read full story June 26th, 2007 - 16:27
A New Psychiatric Diagnosis: Video-Games Addiction ?

A New Psychiatric Diagnosis: Video-Games Addiction ?


The addiction to video games could be labeled as a psychiatric disease according to a proposal to...
» read full story June 22nd, 2007 - 21:06
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People

Steve-O Under Medical Watch, Charged With Cocaine Possession

Steve-O Under Medical Watch, Charged With Cocaine Possession


Jackass star Steve-O was charged with felony cocaine possession, and was hospitalized for the...
» read full story March 14th, 2008 - 11:50
Lisa Nowak Pleads Not Guilty

Lisa Nowak Pleads Not Guilty


Former STS-121 astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded not guilty for reasons of temporary insanity, during a...
» read full story August 29th, 2007 - 17:24
Allegra, An Anorexic Heiress

Allegra, An Anorexic Heiress


Donatella Versace has decided to announce to the world that her daughter is being “consumed” by...
» read full story March 29th, 2007 - 13:07
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