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MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. People have been taking pills to treat physical problems for many years. It's only been in the past 20 years or so that pills and prescriptions for emotional and mental conditions have become widespread.
The bartender poured 21 shots of Sex on the Beach, three of them virgin. The burly arms raising the plastic cups belonged to middle-aged men with strange stories of the good ol' days of being spat on, punched out or clobbered with a folding chair. Their toast was to a complicated woman, who was smaller and tougher than them all. They called her Angel. The world knew her as a lunatic.
An international team, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the pharmacogenomics of a key mood-stabilizing drug used to treat bipolar disorder. The grant expands the NIH's Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), a long-term, multi-million dollar effort to ...
( University of California - San Diego ) An international team, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the pharmacogenomics of a key mood-stabilizing drug used to treat bipolar disorder.
TUESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The 16-year-old went to the emergency room because of a painful infection in her arm. When doctors used ultrasound on the area, they were shocked to see about 20 foreign objects under her skin, including a paper clip, a screw from a pair of eyeglasses and multiple pieces of pencil lead.
London, Sep 7 : Researchers have suggested that people with a severe mental illness are not likely to be violent-unless they abuse drugs or alcohol.
Serious brain disorders, sometimes called mental illnesses, occur worldwide. Statistics show forms of schizophrenia affect 1 in 100, bipolar disorder 1 in 50 while cases of major depression and severe anxiety disorders -- of which obsessive compulsive disorder is one - are even more prevalent.
Carmen Echevrria chuckled at how annoyed she once was about seeking Edward Short's permission to have an overnight guest in her apartment. It's one of the rules in the Permanent Supportive Housing Program for disabled, chronically homeless persons.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, asked 33 nonprofit groups that focus on health and medical care to tell him how much money they received from pharmaceutical, medical-device, and insurance companies and their foundations from 2006 to 2009, and how they disclose such information to the public.
TORONTO - By any objective measure, the girl's upper arm was a mess. A painful, pus-filled swelling about the dimension of a paperback novel had brought the 16-year-old to hospital desperate for help.