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News: Committee probes drug industry-education ties

News: HHS money to train doctors
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius announced Health and Human Services will grant $47.6 million to train more doctors. . .
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News: Restore independence to medicine says IOM
A blue-ribbon panel of the Institute of Medicine released "Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice" a stunning rebuke of how industry has crept into research, clinical practice, continuing education, professional guidelines, and government agencies. The report calls for an end to practices that have undermined confidence in medicine, saying disclosure is also needed to identify payments and gifts to all foundations, nonprofit advocacy groups, and disease specific organizations. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr....
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News: Canada confronts and combats stigma
A Canadian survey released today shows widespread stigma persists, even among those who have been clinically depressed, according to Canwest News Service. The results indicate "a harsh, and frankly unflattering light on the attitudes we Canadians have," said Dr. Brian Day, president of the Canadian Medical Association. Day added, "mental illness is the final frontier of socially-acceptable discrimination." With a mandate for a decade-long campaign to combat stigma, Canada doubled funding for the year-old Mental Health Commission....
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News: Services for college students
The "Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act" (S. 3311) was introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) to improve services for students on college campuses. The bill aims to increase the number of counselors available on campus. A survey by the American College Health Association indicated one in 11 students considered suicide and the numbers with anxiety disorder and depression had increased. Of the students who committed suicide, barely one in four had received counseling. Click here to read S. 3311...
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News: Beauty queen psychiatrist fights stigma
Dr. Gariane Gunter, a psychiatrist completing her training in South Carolina, was crowned Mrs. United States. According to the American Psychiatric Association, one of her projects includes fighting stigma about mental illness and she plans to start by teaching fifth graders and using Breaking the Silence, educational lesson plans designed by family and educators for students K-12....
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Consider This: Lunch is okay, but pencils are not

Pharma wriggles
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Consider This: When disclosure isn't enough
Pharma, the APA, and the media
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News: Avoiding conflicts of interest
A two-part series from Psychiatryonline discusses how the pharmaceutical industry targets continuing medical education programs. The first article discusses categories for $2.4 billion spent in 2006 for continuing education activities, including advertising and convention exhibits. Critics of this practice say, "these educational programs, especially those created by for-profit CME providers, are thinly veiled product promotion." The second explains how the American Psychiatric Association responds to avoid industry funding of theirs....
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Announcements: Breaking the Silence authors scheduled for "Today Show"
Authors of Breaking the Silence, a model curriculum for teaching about mental illness in the schools, are scheduled to appear on the "Today Show," Thursday, February 7, 10:00 a.m. Eastern. Read Janet Susin's essay about the this project's origins....
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News: Early detection of psychosis
In an effort to speed treatment for a first psychotic episode, researchers in Norway and Denmark assessed the impact of a public information campaign about symptoms. An article in Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access (September 28) reports how multifaceted advertising -- television, newspapers, brochures, posters, lectures, videos and outreach to general practitioners -- educated the public. Students and teachers were a priority and every school in Norway was visited. "The main objective of this campaign was to provide knowledge about psychosis...
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Commentary: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness in Schools
By Janet Susin
After her son was hospitalized with a mental illness, a Long Island school teacher learned there was nothing in the standard curriculum to help other students understand psychiatric disorders. Read about Janet Susin's campaign to change this and design Breaking The Silence.
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Commentary: Introducing School-Based Mental Health Services
by Charles Soule'
What happens when a child's behavior indicates a problem but the family is unable or reluctant to go to community health clinics? Dr. Charles Soule' discusses the benefits of providing appropriate intervention to children in school, linking teachers and staff to families who can use the assistance.
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Commentary: Trauma and PTSD in Children
by Julian Ford
Not all children who experience a traumatic event will develop a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Those who do, however, will need help learning how to manage the stress and its symptoms. Dr. Julian Ford discusses how parents and teachers can become aware of when youngsters need help.
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Commentary: Recovery, Psychiatric Education, and the Future
by Hunter L. McQuistion, MD The potential for building personal recovery is stronger than it's ever been. This is a paradigmatic change which, according to noted psychiatrist Hunter L. McQuistion, requires including models of recovery in post-graduate training programs.
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