By Rick Nauert phd Senior News Editor Researchers from Johns Hopkins
Children's Center analyzed data from interviews with 262 mothers of
African-American ...
Obesity and diabetes at
least double the risk of developing dementia and chronic stress may
increase risk by 4 times. In a recent review of literature from...
The research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, ...
“Unemployment, psychiatric illness and diabetes were factors that seemed to contribute to depression in the chronic kidney disease patients we studied,” ...
A new study says the feelings are linked to heart disease, and it's women that are at thegreatest risk. Love, a strong friendship, and marriage can all ...
They said 73 percent more adults and 50 percent more children are using drugs to treat mental illness than in 1996. Among adults over 65, use of so-called ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Pauline Vu - Aug 15, 2009
The health cuts fall most heavily on areas such as mental health, public health and providers who serve people on Medicaid, which provides medical coverage ...
The study in the Journal found that in 2008, children of military parents sought mental health care over 2 million times. This has doubled in the six years ...
Juvenile prisons have been the caretaker of last resort for troubled children since the 1980s, but mental health experts say the system is in crisis, ...
8/10/09 Mental Illness Was the Costliest Condition Between 1996 and 2006 Newswise (press release) Spending for cancer treatment went from $47 billion to $58 billion; asthma costs rose from $36 billion to $51 billion; and the cost to treat trauma-related ...
8/6/09 US Spending on Mental Health Care Soaring Atlanta Journal Constitution In terms of per-patient costs,
cancer led the way at $5178 in 2006 (up slightly from $5067 in 1996),
while costs for trauma care and asthma rose sharply ...
8/5/09 High Glutamate Levels In Brain Linked With Depression Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center and several other institutions have for the first time linked high levels of glutamate – a neurotransmitter in the ...
8/4/09 Smoking, hypertension and diabetes raise risk of dementia OnMedica Previous studies have shown that the presence of cardiovascular risk factors including high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and smoking increase the risk ...
