Who funds Signs of Suicide? Many of the same drug companies who directly or i...

"A tremendous and continuing amount of research has been done regarding pharmaceutical company involvement in the funding of mental health screening programs. To make these connections simple and easy to see, a diagram has been created that shows how drug companies and other...

Mental care for ex-convicts weighed in Iowa

"the estimated 900 people with mental illnesses released from Iowa prisons each year end up back behind bars at a rate nearly that of other inmates."

Google Base: Herbal Remedy in Treating Your Stress

"A lot of people at some point experience stress. It can be part of your daily lives. Stress can come in your lives with a lot of reasons, it can be because of the pressures you have in your work, too much worry about some things. Certainly, there are a lot of factors and...

The Real "Mental Health Lessons" from Virginia Tech

"Instead of offering the promise of reducing violence, all psychiatric drugs carry the potential risk of driving the individual into violent madness. For example, both the newer antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and Celexa, and the antipsychotic drugs such as...

Woman accused of giving Valium to children refused bail

" A court has refused to grant bail to a woman accused of giving Valium to three children. The woman cannot be named for legal reasons. She is charged with three counts of administering poison to three, six and nine-year-old girls on Queensland's Gold Coast last Thursday. The...

New genre of video games target mental health

There's a study on a game where you answer some questions to get an idea of your daily emotional and mental health. The findings (whether this game with lots of "smiley faces" can improve your self-esteem and lower stress) will be released later this year, but they are...

Muscular Liberalism

"I just listened to Chris Wallace’s interview of Jim Webb, and I was reminded of n2l’s discussion of the coinage of the term “muscular liberalism.” Webb flexed his liberal muscles as he impatiently explained to the pesky Wallace the differences between the Sunni...

Assisted Suicide: Let The Culling Begin

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A ruling by Switzerland's highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives. Switzerland already...

Can Dogs Make You Healthier?

"Scientists claimed on Monday that owning a dog is good for your mental and physical health, more so even than cats. Writing in the British Journal of Health Psychology, Dr. Deborah Wells, a senior lecturer at the Canine Behaviour Centre of Queens University, Belfast, found...

Bed shortage met with 'virtual' solution

"Five "virtual beds" have been created at Halifax-area psychiatric wards to deal with a bed shortage for patients with serious mental illnesses. The plan was developed after people with mental illnesses were showing up at emergency rooms needing hospitalization, but there was...

Why can't you pay attention anymore?

"Unlike attention deficit disorder, or ADD, people aren't born with ADT. It's the result, he contends, of the modern workplace, where the constant and relentless chatter coming from our computers, phones and other high-tech devices is diluting our mental powers."

Docile by Design?

"Moves to clone and genetically modify farm livestock have opened the door to the creation of "Farmyard Freaks", experts have warned. News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality. A...