PAXALLES (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) For Immediate Release: Monday, October 6, 2008 Contact: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller, 301-496-5133,
Phawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Photo by LINDA DG] INQUIRER: Sandy Morgan didn’t have a receipt when she walked out of the Boothwyn Wal-Mart with more than $500 worth of dolls, toys and girls’ clothes. In her mind, she didn’t need one. She owned Wal-Mart, she told a manager who tried to stop her. Sandy knew things others didn’t. She knew [...]
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Paramus, NJ, October 7, 2008: Imagine going through the day without the ability to concentrate and focus on the things you enjoy and important tasks that you need to complete. Think what it would be like, struggling to remember what you just talked about or learned a short time ago. Consider how you would feel if you couldn’t even accomplish simple tasks, such as making a phone call, grocery shopping...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
So says Lisa Madigan, the attorney general of Illinois. Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $62 million to 33 states to settle claims that it improperly marketed Zyprexa, its top-selling drug, to patients who did not have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, its only approved uses. The agreement may also be a sign that a much larger deal is near in a separate but related civil and criminal investigation led...
Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
This is a peculiar article: Costs and effects of paliperidone extended release compared with alternative oral antipsychotic agents in patients with schizophrenia in Greece: A cost effectiveness study . It's a open-access article in the Annals of General Psychiatry, dated 28 August, 2008. (Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7:16 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-16) Background To compare the costs and effects...
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Paranoid Schizophrenia is a disorder that terrifies those suffering from it. Those suffering from this disorder can have both visual and auditory hallucinations. They are also subject to extreme feelings of terror for no reason such as thinking that someone is trying to hurt them or that something horrible is going to happen to them. [...]
soulful sepulcher (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The high price of Clozaril(Clozapine) use is with the physical body. The drug is one that is typically used as "last resort" med for schizophrenia, and the side effects can be deadly. The mandatory blood draws are for a CBC to check white blood cell count, to make sure the patient has not developed a drug-induced leukemia. My daughter takes this drug. There is a clinical trial that is recruiting
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
One in five elderly Canadians suffer from a form of mental ailments ranging from depression to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. But only few are getting the proper medical help, according to a study. Researchers said in the article which will come out this week in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry that some of the mental illness such as depression has become an accepted part of aging. But reality...
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia disorder. Now there is a name for the feelings that you have been experiencing, and you do not have to wonder any more. The fact that you have to tell your family and friends is frightening to you. Once you get past this hurdle and have educated yourself and [...]
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Agonising article by Patrick Cockburn on his son's schizophrenia. I blame cannabis for what happened to Henry. He says he smoked a lot between the ages of 14 and 19, but I didn't notice at the time. I would have been concerned, of course, if I'd known back then, but until recently I had no idea about [...]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Patrick Cockburn describes the agony of dealing with his son Henry's schizophrenia. Henry also describes what he's endured.
Contract Pharma Breaking News (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Pfizer will discontinue development of drugs for heart disease, obesity and bone health as part of its plan to focus research on Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, inflammation/immunology, oncology, pain and psychoses (schizophrenia), according to a company memo. The shift in R&D focus was led by president Martin Mackay, a Pfizer research executive who took over the division in October of last year. "It's...
Maurizio - Omnologos (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
(Letter to the IHT) Dear Editors I am quite worried for the weeks to come. A lame-duck US Presidency unable to convince Congress to pass its financial rescue package, and utterly unpopular around the country, may as well try to use an attack against Iran as a way to bolster its image, and to leave another lasting [...]
FIDE-O (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Washington Post reports -- Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia." The Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. told worshipers that the Democratic presidential nominee's positions on abortion and gay partnerships...
Redneck's Revenge (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Washington Post - Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia." The Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. told worshipers that the Democratic presidential nominee's positions on abortion and gay partnerships exist...
