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PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATERIrritable Bowel Syndrome and the Mind/Gut Connection
Although we’ve all heard allusions to the “mind/body connection,” Western medicine still tends to downplay or ignore the effect people’s attitudes and emotions can have on their overall health. In her recent New York Times article “Let the Mind Help Tame an Irritable Bowel,” Jane E. Brody discusses an even more specific connection: that of [...]
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:10:41 +0000
| Two Psychiatric Drugs on FDA Watch List
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a list of 20 drugs that are on its adverse effect “watch list” — drugs that have potential new serious risks or had new safety information from January to March 2008. The data come from FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database, its only method for [...]
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:55:59 +0000
| Money = Happiness
It turns out that whoever said money can’t buy you happiness was wrong.
Money can buy you happiness, as long as you give some of the money away.
Dunn and colleagues (2008) conducted three studies that examined the relationship between Americans’ spending habits and their self-reported happiness. The first study was a national survey conducted on [...]
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:10:53 +0000
| Is Mental Illness Relevant in Reporting a Crime?
Liz Spikol comments on the media’s reporting of a horrible and tragic shooting in Alger, Washington on Tuesday by 28-year-old Isaac Zamora. Philip chimes in over at Furious Seasons. Both suggest that mental illness is a relevant fact to the story, because it helps explain the criminal activity.
I say “Bollocks!”
A person’s mental illness no more [...]
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:50:19 +0000
| Cultivating a Healthy Body Image in Kids
With today’s thinning ideal, it’s tough raising children with a healthy body image.
On the one hand, we’re inundated with images of emaciated models (and supposed role models) and ads for waist-whittling diets, while, on the other hand, we’re also bombarded with grave warnings about the escalating obesity epidemic. No doubt all of this confuses [...]
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:44:37 +0000
| Teen Suicide Rates Decline
Despite the hysteria a year ago about a one-year spike in teenage suicide rates, new data show what many were previously cautioning about — drawing broad conclusions from a single datapoint:
The new research, based on 1996-2005 national data, appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. It shows the rate dropped by about 5 [...]
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:51:55 +0000
| Reflections at 13
We are in the midst of our 13th year on the Web and our 16th year online. And while 13 years on the Web seems old, it still seems like yesterday when I began publishing Psych Central.
Thirteen years ago, I was starting my internship year in Poughkeepsie, New York, working in the local community [...]
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:34:15 +0000
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Paramedics flee after knife brandished
A POLISH man who forced paramedics and a BBC TV camera crew to run for safety when he brandished a knife said it was all a misunderstanding over language.
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:36:06 GMT
| Tragic double suicide: 'I can't believe that Kerri's gone'
A YOUNG woman who worked in Rugby committed suicide a year and two days after her fiancee took his own life.
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:52:59 GMT
| Dead body found on rail line
A DEAD body has been found this morning (Wednesday) near Rugby after it is believed a man threw himself in front of a high speed train.
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:23:51 GMT
| Four arrested in restaurant swoop
FOUR illegal workers have been arrested after immigration officers paid a visit to an Indian restaurant in Rugby.
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:23:23 GMT
| Young driver faces jail after killing pedestrian
A YOUNG driver who knocked down and killed a Rugby woman after speeding past road works early one morning has been convicted of causing her death by dangerous driving.
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:07:57 GMT
| New sexual health clinic opening at St. Cross Hospital
A NEW £530,000 sexual health clinic is being opened at the Hospital of St Cross in Rugby.
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:17:32 GMT
| Armed robbers jailed after series of raids on bookies
THREE men who staged one of a series of armed raids at branches of Coral bookmakers in Rugby have been given indefinite prison sentences for the protection of the public.
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:35:02 GMT
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