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Beware the gatekeeper of information
Real leaders abhor secrecy like nature abhors a vacuum.Tyrants adore secrecy. I've been doing a fair amount of consulting with small- to medium-sized technology companies that needed and sought help. My assistance was requested by...
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Medicine's Not-So-Silent Killer: Human Guinea Pigs
'It feels like I'm hanging out with a bunch of friends, and they're paying me just because I have a tube in my nose,' Walter Burpo, another participant, said.This group makes up a growing number of normal, healthy research volunteers who...
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Aspergers is not a mental health illness
PLEASE can I comment on the news item (HE, June 11) about a man who made a cup of coffee using washing-up liquid and, when thirsty, tried to steal water bottles from cars?The report showed that the man was diagnosed as a paranoid...
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Mental health advocates discuss need not being met in Highlands County
Email Story Discuss Story (0) Related Links SEBRING - Mental health advocates representing about six entities, some in private practice, gathered Tuesday evening to talk about the needs not being met in Highlands County.Kerry Robinson, a...
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County needs mental health court, grand jury says
Jail is not the best place for people who have a serious mental illness and have committed nonviolent crimes, according to a Ventura County grand jury report released June 15.Instead of jailing nonviolent offenders who have been diagnosed...
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Mental health medications: Seroquel
Todays featured medication: Seroquel As mentioned in earlier articles about bipolar disorder, it is particularly important that patients stick to any prescribed medication plans.This is of main concern because without them, some symptoms...
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Mental health care advocates make case against budget cuts
It took Michael Lynch, who has paranoid schizophrenia, two years to get used to his mentor at The Wellman Center.Now he is dreading the thought that drastic cuts proposed for health and human services in North Carolina will set his...
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Scrutiny turns to mental health system in Williams case
On Monday, when Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola announced that Scranton police were justified in fatally shooting Brenda Williams, he began to shift public scrutiny from the police officers who shot Ms.Williams to the...
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Social skills, paranoid thinking, and social outcomes among young adults
(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website) Personality and Individual Differences, 06/19/09 Print Save in My Library Free Abstract Riggio HR et al.- Paranoid thinking was positively...
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Man who set fire to jet is sent to the State Hospital
A JUDGE yesterday ordered an Albanian man who set fire to a plane at Glasgow Airport to be detained in the State Hospital without limit of time.The High Court in Glasgow heard that Safet Bukoshi, 36, climbed over the airport fence using a...
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Jet fire man detained in hospital
A BMI Embraer aircraft, similar to the one set on fire by Bukoshi A man who set fire to a holiday jet at Glasgow Airport has been ordered to be detained without limit of time at the State Hospital.Albanian national Safet Bukoshi, 36,...
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Schizophrenia patients have high-clarity emotion identification deficits
MedWire News: Schizophrenia patients have deficits in identifying high-clarity emotional cues, supporting the notion that the disease is characterized by high noise in internal representations and increased cerebral network fluctuations, say...
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Local mental health patients mum says: System sick
Local mental health patients mum says: System sick HOSPITAL emergency departments do not meet the needs of mental health patients in crisis, a Tamworth mother has said.Deidre Christian contacted The Leader following last Tuesdays tragic...
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Mental health charity 'prosecuted for lone worker death'
The Health and Safety Executive will prosecute a charity after a care worker was stabbed to death.Ashleigh Ewing, 22, of Hebburn, was working for Sunderland-based Mental Health Matters when she was stabbed to death by paranoid...
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ISP report: Man with machete had mental health problems
DANVILLE, Ill.(AP) A Texas resident living and taking courses in Carbondale was paranoid and hallucinating when he charged Illinois State Police officers with a machete and was shot dead, according to an Illinois State Police report...
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Charity prosecuted over employee's death A Sunderland mental health charity accused of failing to protect a yo
A Sunderland mental health charity accused of failing to protect a young employee who was stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic during a home visit is to face trial at a crown court.Mental Health Matters is being prosecuted...
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Expert says 'don't panic' after first swine flu case in Notts
AN INFLUENZA expert has said people in Notts should not panic despite the first case of swine flu being confirmed in the county.Dr Alan McNally, senior lecturer and influenza diagnostics researcher at Nottingham Trent University, has said...
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Jayne Zito: why it's time to end mental health campaign
Widow of man killed by a schizophrenic says that new legislation means her charity's work is done Jayne Zito, whose husband was stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic almost 17 years ago, is to close the charity she founded in...
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Letters: DNA database
I visited Leipzig in the former German Democratic Republic about a year after the Berlin Wall came down.At the former headquarters of the town's Stasi was an exhibition devoted to exposing some of the excesses and idiocies of the former...
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Price of failure ANOTHER report investigating a killing carried out by a patient with severe mental health pro
ANOTHER report investigating a killing carried out by a patient with severe mental health problems reveals a familiar catalogue of failings.Benjamin Holiday had been treated for paranoid schizophrenia for four years prior to...
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Mental health courts increase despite debate
Posted to: News Norfolk By Dena Potter NORFOLK When the judge calls her name the lady pops up, slipping on her long, red jacket and floppy hat as she approaches the bench.'Taking your medicine?' the judge asks. 'My prescription ran out....
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Development of a Dual Disorders Program
Integrated dual disorder programs have come about because traditional treatment of co-occurring addiction disorders and psychiatric disorders fail in a large number of people and waste resources.More than 5 million adults in the United...
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Advocates rally for better mental health treatment
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kim Pointer's 25-year-old son had been missing for about a month when she received a strange e-mail from him that included paranoid ramblings about the government and other organizations conspiring against him.
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