APA Continues Fight For Fair Coverage For Mental Health Care The American Psychiatric Association (APA) will continue to fight for legislation to end discrimination against Medicare patients seeking mental
health care, said APA President Nada Stotland, MD, MPH., after the Senate failed to get enough votes to consider S.3101, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Dr. Stotland's comments came after a key vote to cut off debate on the bill failed Thursday by a vote of 54-39, six votes shy of the 60 needed.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCMHA Acknowledges And Supports Federal Government's Apology To The Thousands Of Victims Of Indian Residential Schools In Canada Dr. Taylor Alexander, CEO of the Canadian Mental
Health Association (CMHA), National Office applauds Prime Minister Stephen Harper's recent House of Commons apology to the thousands of victims of Indian Residential Schools in Canada."This government's recent historic apology will hopefully, begin the healing process for survivors, their families and their loved ones.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLetters To The Editor Discuss Undisclosed Pharmaceutical Industry Payments To Harvard Researchers The New York Times on Monday published four letters to the editor on an investigation report published last week by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in the Congressional Record that found three
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comState Healthcare Reforms For Uninsured Fail To Address High Percentage Of Mental Illness And Substance Use Disorders New data indicates that more than one in four adult Americans without medical insurance have a mental illness or substance use disorder, or both. But many state
healthcare initiatives intended to cover the uninsured are neglecting these conditions, according to a report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the National Council for Community Behavioral
Healthcare (National Council). The report is available at
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDell Electronic Lab Notebook Solution Unleashes Information For Pharmaceutical And Biotech Researchers With pharmaceutical and biotech companies spending billions of dollars to bring new
drugs to market, many are turning to Dell to help improve their research efficiency and collaboration while helping to lower the cost of discovering new therapeutics through Dell's electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution bundle.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGay Brains Are Wired Differently Say Scientists Using scanning technology, researchers in Sweden found that the brains of gay men and women were wired differently to the brains of heterosexual people of the same sex, but were similar to the brains of heterosexual people that were of the opposite sex to them. Thus a gay man's brain was in some ways more like the brain of a heterosexual woman than a heterosexual man, and the brain of a gay or lesbian woman was more like that of a heterosexual man than a heterosexual woman.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comScottish Suicide And Homicide Rates Fueled By Drink And Drugs Alcohol and drug misuse mean Scots are almost twice as likely to kill or take their own life compared to people living in England and Wales, published research reveals.The findings by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCI) also show that the number of mental
health patients committing homicide or suicide was proportionately much higher in Scotland.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBIOSPAIN 2008 - International Presentation Platform For Spanish Biotechnology BIOSPAIN 2008, the greatest event held to date in the biotechnology sector in Spain, will be taking place in Granada from 17th to 19th September 2008.
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