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Assisted Suicides In Oregon May Be Overlooking DepressionThe British Medical Journal today published a new study that suggests that physicians and other healthcare workers in Oregon are doing a horrible job in recognizing and formally assessing mental health issues in people who ask for help under Oregon’s assisted suicide law. The law requires that physicians and healthcare workers assess for mental health [...]
How Does A Bridge Suicide Net Work?As we noted a few days ago, the Golden Gate Bridge is finally getting a suicide barrier. However, it’s not so much a barrier as it is a net. A steel net, to be specific. The net will be suspended from either side of the iconic span, and reach out about 20 feet. Out of [...]
Eating Disorders In MenWhen we think of eating disorders, we rarely picture a man working out obsessively, starving himself to look lean or wanting to emulate celebrities on magazine covers. For years, eating disorders have been viewed as a “white woman’s disease.” And estimates of male eating disorders told a similar story: while the majority of women [...]
Seroquel XR Gets Additional ApprovalsHelping to extend Seroquel’s existing reach, AstraZeneca, its maker, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market it as an effective treatment not only for mania associated with bipolar disorder, but also now for depressive episodes in bipolar disorder too. According to the Reuters report on the news: The green light from the [...]
?Young Lady, You Don?t Look A Day Over 65?: Elderspeak And Its EffectsHearing people address elderly strangers in overly familiar terms such as “dear” or “sweetie” has always bothered me. When I’m out with my grandmother and someone (generally an overzealous salesperson) goes the “dear” route with her, it always seems so patronizing and disrespectful. Whatever happened to a good old-fashioned “Ma’am”? As it turns out, new research [...]
Introducing Minding The MediaPages: 1 2 Next » Single Page Celebrities get publicly punished for three things: Putting on weight Looking anorexic Having cellulite Celebrities get publicly praised for only two though: Looking thin Losing weight (while sharing their diet and workout secrets!) While magazines and television play the weight (and cellulite-celebs-without-makeup) game, we too, become players. But instead of watching this [...]
Clergy Often Dismiss A Mental Health ConcernAs we reported earlier today, nearly a third of Christian people in a study who went to their clergy for assistance with a personal or family member’s mental illness were told they (or their family member) didn’t really have a mental health problem. Instead, it was suggested to them that it was just a spiritual [...]
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