Miss USA Checks into Rehab

Being a contestant in the Miss USA pageant, you must possess a squeaky clear persona. It appears that Miss USA 2006, Tara Conner, was able to portray that image and acquire the title. Right after the story of her appointment, however, rumors and pictures came to light connected with Ms. Conner’s hard partying methods. Not [...]

$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.

LA’s Underground Music Drug Queen (Stacy Ann Ferguson “Fergie”)

Stacy Ann Ferguson, born on March 27, 1975, started off her job as the voice of Sally in the Charlie Brown cartoon. She eventually proceeded to land a task on the long term tv series, Kids Incorporated. After the show ended she joined the group known as Wild Orchid. It was her beginning of reputation [...]

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 …

Myths vs Reality: Prescription Pain Medication Abuse

Open up just about any newspaper these days and you will locate an article regarding a person enslaved by drugs. The process starts out innocently enough, you’ve got an mild pain, you go to a doctor and so they prescribe pain medicine. You begin taking them and feel great. This needs to be the conclusion [...]

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.

Charlie Sheen and Mental Illness

For those who have grown up over the 90’s, you might recollect a fresh-faced actor starring in the motion picture “Major League”. The film revolves around baseball as well as a dodgy pitcher, which you may recognise as Charlie Sheen. The superstar, child of popular actor Martin Sheen, has become a huge film and tv [...]

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 diseas…

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