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Treatments of physical and mental health are coming together
Many days, the sheer weight of Iszurette Hunter's clinical depression becomes more than she can lift. She clings to her bed in her South Los Angeles home. Important obligations slide away, including keeping appointments with doctors who are trying to...
Tags: Asthma, Diabetes, Healthcare Policies, High Blood Pressure, Anxiety
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Eva Longoria sends Twitter love to ex Tony Parker's Spurs
Eva Longoria may have ended her marriage with Tony Parker, but that doesn't mean she's ended her relationship with the San Antonio Spurs. Now an innocuous tweet from the "Desperate Housewives" alum has her followers questioning their current...
Tags: Kim Kardashian, NBA Finals, Kanye West, Gary Payton, Miami Heat
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Friends, relatives of suicide victims are bound in grief
Hope was the theme of the day, but unremitting pain was the backdrop when friends and family members of suicide victims gathered in a Culver City park on Saturday for their annual summer potluck. "Survivors After Suicide" they call themselves. It's a...Tags: Suicide, Behavioral Conditions, Human Interest, Mental Health
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Daily Caller reporter to mentally ill: Stop faking it
“The brain is a body part too,” President Obama said in a speech Monday in which he urged Americans to embrace those struggling with mental illness. Sounds like an innocent enough proposal, right? Like victims of cancer or diabetes, those...
Tags: Human Mishaps, Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia, Health
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Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...
Tags: Mother's Day, Lawyers, Armed Conflicts, Behavioral Conditions, Judges
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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Lawyers, Behavioral Conditions, Stress, Judges, Hospitals and Clinics
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Women's brains more likely than men's to respond to crying babies
WASHINGTON – Why do kids grow up to cry “Mommy” more often than “Daddy”? The National Institutes of Health has an answer: The wailing of a hungry infant is less likely to bother a man than a woman. In an experiment, 18...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, National Institutes of Health, Family, Autism
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ADHD, Social Sciences, Poverty, Behavioral Conditions
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'The Sad Passions' paints haunting tale of loss and art
Spectral girls and shadow fathers haunt the center and fringes of Veronica Gonzalez Peña's second novel, "The Sad Passions," but this isn't magical realism. These aren't spirits who visit in the middle of the night. These phantom girls and men are living,...
Tags: Authors, Book, Family, Long Island
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Ketamine: a potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward
For years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how -- and how well -- the drug ketamine, a "twilight drug" used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure, can lift someone with severe depression almost...
Tags: Social Sciences, LSD, Behavioral Conditions, Chemical Industry, Culture
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Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?
About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...
Tags: Lexapro (drug), Behavioral Conditions, Internal Medicine, Chemical Industry, Heart Attack
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Mariel Hemingway urges change to help others find a personal best
Mariel Hemingway, makeup-free and in sweats, is gorgeous. That bone structure, her cheetah-like build and flowing hair have been familiar for decades. What's disarming is her forthright approach to a rough family history and her determination to live...
Tags: Manhattan (movie), Ernest Hemingway, Suicide, Behavioral Conditions, Rock Climbing
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