California Bipolar Foundation goes international

The International Bipolar Foundation (IBPF), formerly California Bipolar Foundation, founded just three years ago, has been growing by leaps and bounds. Calls and email requests for help are received on a daily basis from around the globe.

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People’s Depression Worsen During Allergy Season

New research is showing that people with depression or bipolar disorder that are allergic to certain pollens such as tree or ragweed.

Suicides expose safety breakdowns

Suicides by troubled teens expose safety breakdowns behind bars Jamal Miller’s death was the seventh suicide in the state’s juvenile correctional facility in the past decade.

Social worker will speak at meeting

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance will meet at 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 26, at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown.

Supervisors Approve Charging Non-Residents To Visit Botanical Gardens

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a law charging non-San Francisco residents to visit the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park.

TRIBUNE WATCHDOG: Suicides by troubled teens

Sometime before 3:09 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2009, Jamal Miller began to tear the bedsheet in his room at the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles. The stocky 16-year-old tied the sheet to a sock and tied the sock around the metal bar at the top of his bunk bed. He attached three notes to the cinder-block wall with toothpaste and placed another piece of notebook paper in the narrow window of his door …

Hay Fever Linked to Depression

Preliminary research shows that people with depression or bipolar disorder who are allergic to tree or ragweed pollen experience worse depression when exposed to that allergen.

Merck Launching Numerous Drugs Around the World

Drugmaker Merck & Co. has spurt of new medicine launches, mostly outside United States Merck & Co – United States – Schering-Plough – Business – Heart disease

Merck launching numerous drugs around the world

Merck & Co. is enjoying a spurt of new drug launches, partly due to its $41 billion November acquisition of New Jersey neighbor Schering-Plough Corp. Some have been on the market in the United States for a while, including blockbuster diabetes medicine Januvia, and are now being launched in other countries.

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