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Health bosses have secured ï¿¡2.8 million of government funding to provide better mental health counselling services for people.
The new cash will allow both East Sussex Downs and Weald and Hastings and Rother Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), working closely with Sussex Partnership Trust, to recruit staff who offer properly supervised low and high intensity talking therapies.
The [...]
tate and city officials report that flaws in the mental health and criminal justice systems have contributed to violence in people with serious mental illness.
A panel was charged with studying the issue after several high profile incidents of violence involving suspects with mental illness _ including the case of a New York City psychotherapist who [...]
Kristofer Goldsmith was so distressed about the prospect of returning to Iraq that he decided he was willing to kill himself to avoid serving a second tour.
The Army had mandated an extension of his three-year contract, which had been set to expire, as his unit was set to deploy to Baghdad as part of the [...]
A resident of a halfway house for psychiatric patients is accused of severely beating a staff counselor he’d been dating, holding her captive in a car until the woman’s parents reached her cell phone, police said today.
Hearing her terrified voice, the parents called 911, and police later discovered the bloody couple parked a quarter mile [...]
If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]
Jack Shaw reclines in his cushy lounge chair as Dottie Magee gently removes his sneakers and socks while the sound of New Age synthesizers competes with the bland drone of an oxygen pump.
Magee takes Shaw’s feet in her hands and gently rubs in silky lotion. Her fingers travel up, down and around the toes, heels, [...]
CHICAGO - Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death , even if they are very old.
Both studies were stopped early so the surprising benefits could be made known. [...]
Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]
NEW YORK - Eli Lilly and Co. and Alaska announced a $15 million settlement Wednesday in the state’s lawsuit over the use of the drug Zyprexa in its Medicaid program.
The deal ensures that Alaska will be treated as well as any other state that may settle with Lilly over similar claims involving the drug, which [...]
