Archive for the ‘Mental Health’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The House and Senate have reached an agreement on the policy framework for legislation that would require employers and health insurers to cover mental illnesses at the same level as physical illnesses, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the agreement, the terms of which will be set this week, ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Mental Health America announced that Julie Clark, an experienced public policy advocate and attorney, is joining the organization as its new Vice President of Healthcare Reform. Clark will lead Mental Health America's Healthcare Reform Department, which develops state initiatives and advocacy efforts to influence policies in the health, mental health ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
What do you do when you want to let the bipolar community know about scholarships for people with bipolar disorder, but soon discover that support for bipolar students is still far too rare? Why donate a scholarship yourself of course. The Bipolar Lives Scholarship is a new scholarship, created ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Minister of State with responsibility for Equality, Disabilty & Mental Health, John Moloney T.D., has confirmed that new developments for disability services are to proceed as planned this year. The Minister said that he had been assured by the HSE that, while the commencement of some services had been ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
NARSAD's Board of Directors announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Birkett has resigned to pursue other opportunities. During Mr. Birkett's tenure, he ran the organization with a new energy and focus. The Chief Financial Officer, Lou Innamorato, will serve as Acting President as the Board begins the ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
In a major new report launched, the Royal College of Psychiatrists calls for action to end the inequalities faced by people with mental health problems. Following consultation with psychiatrists, service users and carers across the UK, the College has drawn up its Fair Deal manifesto to highlight the problems ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The reports of the death of a mental health patient in the Kings County Hospital psychiatric emergency room are deeply troubling and demand further investigation to determine the root cause of this incident. Given the problems that were first raised in a federal lawsuit filed a year ago, it ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
"Coverage for All: Inclusion of Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders in State Healthcare Reform Initiatives," National Alliance on Mental Illness/National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare: The study finds that more than one in four uninsured U.S. adults has a mental illness or substance use disorder, or both, and that ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Lord Darzi has set the course for future mental health care with a review that for the first time puts mental health at the heart of the NHS. However, leading mental health charity Mind warns that there are still areas of inequality on the road ahead that must be urgently ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
UNICEF issued a major report on Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD), the single greatest cause of preventable mental retardation, which looks at progress made in preventing the problem over the past two decades, lessons learned and guiding principles for future success. IDD results from a diet low in iodine, which ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
A new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found that antenatal depression can have a negative impact on child development.It is widely accepted that postnatal depression can have a detrimental effect on child development, however few studies have looked at the effect of antenatal ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) applauds House passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, which overhauls key features in Medicare coverage of treatment for mental health, most notably by reducing the discriminatory 50 percent coinsurance patients must pay for outpatient mental health services to the same 20 ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
As formal consultation on the National Dementia Strategy for England begins, key organisations are calling for action from the Government in addressing a full range of 'later life' mental health problems. The key organisations involved in the new consensus statement A Collective Responsibility to Act Now on Ageing and ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Concept Media, a leading producer and distributor of healthcare education media, has just released ADHD: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Mental Retardation in DVD and CD-ROM formats. These new scenario-based series have a multidisciplinary focus that features medicine, nursing, education, and human development. Tricia Rodewald, President of Concept ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
New research by Rethink suggests that less than half of people with severe mental illness are getting the healthchecks GPs are meant to provide. Rethink welcomed the new government recognition of the problem in its report released Health inequalities: progress and next steps, but warned that urgent action is needed ...
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