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mental illness
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Stories focus on suicides of doctors, soldiers
New York Times columnist Pauline Chen, M.D., serves up a reminder that suicide prevention isn’t just a matter of access…
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Why Texas is failing to privatize mental health care
In 2003, Texas passed a law that sought to turn mental health care in the state into a competitive marketplace.…
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In major leagues, mental illness losing its stigma
Calling Major League Baseball a “longtime fortress against psychiatry” Sports Illustrated‘s Pablo S. Torre profiles the organization’s recent efforts to…
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State NAMI chapters got pharma money too
Wall Street Journal health blogger Katherine Hobson writes that, according to an investigation by Sen. Chuck Grassley, state chapters of…
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Mental health parity law implementation evolves
Writing for Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post, Sandra Boodman considers the effect that the American mental health parity…
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Comments invited on latest draft of DSM
A new version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has come out every decade…
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More vets come home as result of psychiatric issues
On Shots, NPR’s Health Blog, Nadja Popovich reports on a recent Johns Hopkins study that found, more troops were evacuated…
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Trib looks into dangerous nursing home residents
The Chicago Tribune‘s Gary Marx and David Jackson examined the effectiveness of Illinois regulations implemented in 2006 to protect nursing…
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Tompkins: Juvenile jails taking on mentally ill youth
Al Tompkins, the reliable story-spotter at the Poynter Institute, jumped at the potential to localize a New York Times story…
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DoD campaigns against stigma of depression, PTSD
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury’s new Real Warriors campaign is designed to aid…