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. . .evidence vs. spin

. . .But is that enough?

Posted on: November 19, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: pharmaceutical, psychiatry, reform

. . .Think again

. . .addressing wrongs

Posted on: September 14, 2009 | Comments (1)
Topics: advocacy, courts, housing, legal, services

. . .urgent needs

Posted on: August 21, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: advocacy, mental health

. . .rationing in mental health

Posted on: August 4, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, insurance, medication, reform

. . .check this out

Posted on: July 29, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: stigma

. . .what about the 84 million?

Posted on: July 13, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: policy, politics, reform

. . .take a poll

Posted on: June 8, 2009 | Comments (2)
Topics: diagnosis, DSM-V, psychiatry, schizophrenia

. . .John Gunderson, M.D., lecture

. . .Monday morning

Posted on: May 18, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: addiction, alcohol, psychiatry

. . .shortages in psychiatry

Posted on: April 21, 2009 | Comments (1)
Topics: children, mental health, politics, psychiatry, reform

. . .some will hurt more than others

. . .our health

Posted on: March 23, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: drug trials, pharmaceutical, research

. . . ask for mental health reform

. . .the stimulus package

Posted on: February 5, 2009 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, health reform, politics

. . .an update

Posted on: January 26, 2009 | Comments (1)
Topics: advocacy, emergency room, press, stigma

. . .includes mental health

. . .report critical of insurance profits

Posted on: December 11, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics:

. . .tell your story to Obama-Biden

Posted on: December 9, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: policy, politics, reform

. . .and journalism ethics?

Posted on: November 25, 2008 | Comments (3)
Topics: Congress, investigation, pharmaceutical, press

. . . impact mental health

. . .Next steps essential

Posted on: October 5, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, insurance, parity, recovery

. . .Congress should act

Posted on: September 22, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, insurance, parity, politics

. . .for opening the closet door


Pharma wriggles

Posted on: July 22, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: education, ethics, pharmaceutical

Three items of note

Patients can be burned by side effects

Posted on: June 6, 2008 | Comments (1)
Topics: addiction, pharmaceutical, research

Pharma, the APA, and the media

Posted on: May 16, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: education, ethics, medication, pharmaceutical

Highlights. . .

FDA approval, watchdogs and court cases: what this means for you

Posted on: April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: depression, FDA, legal, medication, Zyprexa

New York City opens help for 9/11 victims still struggling with mental health or substance use disorders.

Posted on: April 28, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: anxiety disorders, disaster, PTSD

Would John McCain's policy of excluding pre-existing conditions effect people needing mental health care?

Posted on: April 7, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: insurance, politics

Hail a muscular press

Posted on: April 1, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: hospitals, politics, press, states

Insurance, business interests favor Senate's parity bill

Posted on: March 12, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, insurance, parity, politics

Wellstone Equity Act needed

Posted on: March 5, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, insurance, politics

More on pharma: tracking prescribing habits of doctors, and the FDA.

Posted on: February 26, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: courts, FDA, pharmaceutical, policy

Pharms spends more on lobbying while we spend more on drugs.

Posted on: February 22, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, pharmaceutical, politics, Zyprexa

Events at Northern Illinois University remind us that complex problems need complex answers.

Posted on: February 18, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: advocacy, colleges, policy, stigma

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With 84 million people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse disorders, Bush budget proposals are entirely insufficient. Now it's up to Congress, and the rest of us to respond.

Posted on: February 6, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: Congress, politics

by Phyllis Vine

As measures to protect public safety with gun laws move through state houses, too often the word “dangerous” is being used to modify “mental illness.” Do laudable efforts to halt violence belong on the shoulders of people with a mental illness? Isn't it time we started to wrestle with the truth?

Posted on: January 24, 2008 | Comments (2)
Topics: advocacy, stigma, testimony

by Phyllis Vine

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Despite complaints over several months about side effects when substituting Budeprion XL 300, a generic antidepressant for the branded Wellbutrin 300 XL, the FDA has taken no steps to alert consumers or physicians.

Posted on: January 11, 2008 | Comments (0)
Topics: FDA, medication

by Phyllis Vine

How does strengthening commitment laws help people who need service in the community? Budget shortfall or not, Virginia needs to do more than pay lip service to needed reforms.

by Phyllis Vine

The Child Study Center withdraws "Ransom Notes."

Posted on: December 14, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: ADHD, advocacy, children, depression, eating disorders, OCD, stigma

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A bold report to Florida's governor recommends sweeping changes to address failures in the criminal justice and mental health system. “Transforming Florida’s Mental Health System" can guide significant reform.

by Phyllis Vine
The American Public Health Association annual meeting in Washington, DC, has a number of events discussing a range of issues from Monday's session on empowering consumers in mental health treatments to disaster preparedness, school based reforms. Read summaries of selected sessions, including Dr. Ron Manderscheid's presentation about PTSD and returning vets.

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Posted on: November 3, 2007 | Comments (1)
Topics: depression, FDA, medication, pharmaceutical

Rates of combat-related PTSD, anxiety disorders and depression are climbing off the charts for veterans and their families. But will competing blue-panel commissions slow progress in closing the gaps in the veteran health crisis?

Posted on: October 26, 2007 | Comments (1)
Topics: Congress, military, politics, PTSD, Veterans Affairs

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"Canvas" is an honest and textured portrayal of an ordinary family managing the uncertainties schizophrenia brings to their lives. Marcia Gay Harden (Mary), Joe Pantoliano (John) and Devon Gearhart (Chris) give stunning performances of living on the margin of Mary's illness and hospitalizations while they face an uncertain future. Writer and director Joseph Greco writes without sensationalizing a painful story.

Posted on: October 12, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: family, insurance, parity, schizophrenia

by Phyllis Vine
Wall Street believes there's money to be made in conglomerates owning psychiatric services. Some of these companies have been acquiring hospitals and treatment programs in anticipation of changing federal law. What does this mean for who shapes treatments leading to recovery, and who benefits?

Posted on: October 2, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: hospitals, insurance, parity

by Phyllis Vine
An MIWatch Commentary addresses the intense reaction to the Bush administration's edict revising the States Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Posted on: August 27, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: children, Congress, insurance, politics

by Phyllis Vine
The States Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has huge implications for access to mental health providers and sustained treatments for an additional 3.3 million kids. Who could object?

Posted on: August 8, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: children, insurance, politics, therapies

Testimony of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) before the House Ways and Means Committee on Health, March 27, 2007, on behalf of mental health parity insurance.

Posted on: March 27, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: insurance, parity, testimony
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