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Last night, as I glanced at my Yahoo! homepage was quenching my thirst for knowledge, I found out that of the nearly 31,000 handgun-related deaths in America in 2005, 55 percent were suicides. The article was written in light of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership, and also states:
Public-health researchers have concluded that […]
As you read this, I’m probably sleeping. Or splashing around in water. Or watching a movie.
Or, you know. Sleeping.
You see, I’m on “vacation” this weekend, and actually wrote this post Thursday afternoon. While I know a three-day vacation isn’t exactly long, it’s definitely some much-needed time away from work.
However, my three days off doesn’t need […]
Yesterday, after I told you about Schizophrenia: Public Attitudes, Personal Needs - NAMI’s survey results and other information about schizophrenia - I watched MTV’s True Life: I Have Schizophrenia. (I’m starting to wonder if television is going to die out completely if everything is available online!)
The show didn’t really go into too much depth; of […]
From the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Action Alert I received last night:
We are delighted to announce that the Senate and the House negotiators have reached a historic agreement on the Mental Health Parity compromise bill. Since early March, when the Senate passed its own version of the bill, S. 558, the House and Senate […]
Because Celebrity Health Week was winding down, we didn’t have Saturday Sanity last Saturday.
Let’s see if we can get caught up, shall we?
This week at Mental Health Notes, I spent most of my time trying to get away from the topic of celebrities. I shared with you a study regarding the aroma of coffee and […]
Homosexuality is no longer defined as a mental illness (it was, you know, by the American Psychiatric Association until 1973), but researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have joined the number of researchers who have studied the brain to see if there’s a connection between it and our sexual orientation.
The results?
Simply put, researchers found symmetry among […]
Mary Jane and the Brain are making the news again.
According to an Australian study, people who heavily smoke marijuana for a long period of time are not only putting themselves at risk for the onset of psychosis and schizophrenia-like symptoms and lung cancer, but they’re also putting two important parts of their brains at risk […]
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc. has gotten some seriously negative press regarding Chantix, the drug that’s supposed to help people stop smoking.
For example, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the Food and Drug Administration both made similar reports dealing with a link between Chantix and suicide, seizures, and traffic accidents, airline pilots and air-traffic controllers […]
This is a few days old, but I expect it will stir up some controversy for perhaps years to come - especially for the family members and loved ones of the victims.
According to The Washington Post article, Va. Governor Commutes Death Sentence, Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine commuted a death row inmate’s sentence from execution […]
I keep no secrets about my love affair with coffee; however, I know lots of folks steer clear of coffee because of the negative mental and physical effects it has on them such as making them nervous, jittery, unable to sleep, speeding up their heart rates, and in some cases even causing convulsions and delirium.
I […]
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