Miss USA Checks into Rehab

As a contestant for the Miss USA pageant, it is necessary to have a squeaky clean persona. It seems that Miss USA 2006, Tara Conner, was able to portray that impression and earn the title. Following the announcement of her appointment, however, gossip and pictures came to light involving Ms. Conner’s hard partying avenues. Not only was she rumored to be out consuming alcohol to a great extent along with consuming prescription drugs, but images surfaced of her allegedly making out with another Miss USA contestant.

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$1.2m ChCh bipolar study is first for NZ

Huge ups, and huge downs. Sufferers of bipolar disorder can feel deeply depressed, and yet at other times, maniacally up.

Disney Actor Demi Lovato Checks into Rehab

Demi Lovato of the tv series “Sonny With a Chance” went into rehabilitation in November of 2010 for emotional and psychological difficulties. Demi had battled a diet condition for some time and accepted that she cut herself. Getting into rehab meant that Demi simply had to depart the Jonas Brothers Tour so as to seek the help that she wanted.

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Swedish researchers in ‘depression gene’ find

Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have managed to identify a gene which they believe has a strong connection to bipolar disorder.

The Bipolar Disorder Drug Market Will Decline from $6.5 Billion in 2010 to $4 Billion in 2020, Owing Largely to …

Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, owing largely to increasing generic competition within the atypical antipsychotic drug class—starting with Zyprexa’s loss of patent protection in the United States and Europe—the bipolar disorder drug market will decline from $6.5 billion in 2010 to $4 billion in 2020 ...

Boston Medical Malpractice Case 2011

Earlier this year around March 2011, a doctor and nurse practitioner out of Needham, MA were arrested for purportedly supplying and dispersing prescriptions to known substance addicts for profit. In the case with the medical doctor and nurse practitioner it was subsequently learned that they offered for sale pointless painkillers to the addicts in exchange for cash as well as insurance payments. This particular alleged circulation and selling seems to lead back so far as 03. This particular claimed medical malpractice might have prompted the fatalities associated with 6 people in the recent past and as many as a dozen or so from ’03 on.

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Antipsychotics: Modest Benefits for Non-Approved Conditions

A new research review shows that powerful drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression may have modest benefits when they are prescribed for certain other mental and behavioral problems.

Zeta-Jones’s courageous admission boosts bipolar campaign in Scotland

FILM star Catherine Zeta- Jones’ admission that she had bipolar disorder has sparked a national campaign about the illness in Scotland.

It’s a disease

Recent high profile deaths have put suicide and mental health in the headlines. Society stills struggles to understand that depression and bipolar affective disorder along with other mental health disorders are diseases just like cancer or heart disease. It’s hard to comprehend that when it’s not an actual organ that’s diseased, that we refer to the victims of suicide as weak or thoughtless or ...

Dr. Drew vs. Charlie Sheen: A Battle to Sanity

Considering the newest chat relating to Charlie Sheen and his probable manic attacks, every psychiatrist hopes to take a chance at examining Sheen. Dr .. Drew, however, provides his opinions that Charlie Sheen might be bipolar, stating that Sheen’s symptoms match that of a manic depressive man or woman.

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