Three tales of going from homeless to hopeful

Carmen Echevrria chuckled at how annoyed she once was about seeking Edward Short’s permission to have an overnight guest in her apartment. It’s one of the rules in the Permanent Supportive Housing Program for disabled, chronically homeless persons.

Ethics and Disclosure: How Health Nonprofits Handle Contributions From Medical Companies

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, asked 33 nonprofit groups that focus on health and medical care to tell him how much money they received from pharmaceutical, medical-device, and insurance companies and their foundations from 2006 to 2009, and how they disclose such information to the public.

Embedding may be teens’ unkindest cut of all

TORONTO – By any objective measure, the girl’s upper arm was a mess. A painful, pus-filled swelling about the dimension of a paperback novel had brought the 16-year-old to hospital desperate for help.

Health Calendar

WednesdayVOLUNTEERS: North Carolina Baptist Hospital needs volunteers in patient and non-patient care service areas. Volunteer opportunities are available in the Brenner Children’s Hospital, coronary care, the gift shop, transportation and way finders, the Cancer Center, and many other areas of the hospital. Training and orientation will begin at 5:30 p.m.

FYI Navarro County

A list of organizations and services of interest throughout Navarro County

Bipolar disorder ‘not to blame for violent behaviour’

People with a severe mental illness are no more likely to be violent than anyone else – unless they abuse drugs or alcohol, a study has suggested. The relationship between bipolar disorder and violence largely came down to substance abuse, researchers said..

Bipolar ‘not linked to violence’

People with a mental illness are no more likely to be violent unless they abuse drugs or alcohol, a study suggests.

Not Just Depression

You have a diagnosis of depression. But what about that anxious, jittery feeling? Could there be something else going on?

Press Release

Hoddesdon, 3rd September 2010 —MSD* announced today that the European Commission has approved the Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for’Sycrest’® (asenapine) sublingual tablets for the treatment of moderate to severe manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adults.

Rough youth fuels advocate’s fire

Stan Appelbaum has led volunteer groups for two decades and is a watchdog on children’s and mental health issues. |

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