Posted on: November 19, 2009
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Posted on: September 14, 2009
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Posted on: August 21, 2009
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Posted on: July 29, 2009
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Posted on: July 13, 2009
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Posted on: May 18, 2009
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Posted on: February 5, 2009
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Posted on: January 26, 2009
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. . .report critical of insurance profits Full Story
Posted on: December 11, 2008
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Posted on: December 9, 2008
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Posted on: October 5, 2008
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Posted on: September 22, 2008
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FDA approval, watchdogs and court cases: what this means for you Full Story
New York City opens help for 9/11 victims still struggling with mental health or substance use disorders. Full Story
Posted on: April 28, 2008
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anxiety disorders,
disaster,
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Would John McCain's policy of excluding pre-existing conditions effect people needing mental health care? Full Story
Posted on: April 7, 2008
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Posted on: April 1, 2008
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Insurance, business interests favor Senate's parity bill Full Story
Posted on: March 12, 2008
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Posted on: March 5, 2008
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More on pharma: tracking prescribing habits of doctors, and the FDA. Full Story
Posted on: February 26, 2008
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Pharms spends more on lobbying while we spend more on drugs. Full Story
Events at Northern Illinois University remind us that complex problems need complex answers. Full Story
Posted on: February 18, 2008
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Phyllis Vine
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. Full Story
Posted on: February 6, 2008
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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? Full Story
Posted on: January 24, 2008
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by Phyllis Vine
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.
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Posted on: January 11, 2008
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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.
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by Phyllis Vine
The Child Study Center withdraws "Ransom Notes."
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by Phyllis Vine
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.
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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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A generic antidepressant has different action and side effects.
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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? Full Story
by Phyllis Vine
"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. Full Story
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? Full Story
Posted on: October 2, 2007
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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). Full Story
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? Full Story
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. Full Story
Posted on: March 27, 2007
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