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The Specialty Hospital Sector Is an Emerging Part of China's Healthcare Market
Nov 20, 2014The private hospital sector is an emerging part of China’s healthcare market, and is expected to maintain double-digit growth over the coming years, driven by regulatory changes, market demand and capital investments. Specialty ...
Tags: Specialty Hospitals, Medicine
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The Electronic Cigarette's Future
Jun 13, 2014President of the Spanish Society of Pathology double Supervisor (EDPS), Dr. Nestor Szerman defended Wednesday by inhaling nicotine electronic cigarette as "effective treatment" for these patients because they help to counteract the side ...
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Exposure to Common Family Problems Early in Life Can Impair a Child's Brain Development
Feb 27, 2014Exposure to common family problems early in life can impair a child's brain development, according to new research. Tension between parents, arguments and lack of affection or communication between family members can affect growth of the ...
Tags: family problems, impair a child's brain development, psychiatric disease
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Young Girls with Mental Illness Are More Likely to Become Teenage Parents
Feb 26, 2014Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) ...
Tags: ICES, Mental Illness, Fertility Rates, journal Pediatric
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More Seniority Employees Had on Job,More Positively They Viewed People with Mental Illness
Feb 14, 2014One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health issues as less competent or dangerous. But a new ...
Tags: mental health, mental illness
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Some U.S. Behavioral Health Is Improving and More Are Getting off of Heroin
Feb 8, 2014Some U.S. behavioral health is improving -- the rate of prescription pain reliever abuse dropped, and more are getting off of heroin, health officials say. A report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of ...
Tags: prescription pain reliever abuse, teen, behavioral health problems
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For The Mentally Ill, Finding Treatment Grows Harder
Jan 20, 2014The impact of the health law on individuals needing mental health services, as well as on small businesses and the homeless are explored by various media outlets. The Wall Street Journal: For The Mentally Ill, Finding Treatment Grows ...
Tags: Mental Health Services, Health Law, Health&Medicine, Health&Medicine News
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Mack Who Was Once Homeless Himself Is There to Help
Jan 20, 2014Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
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Three-Year Project Will Encourage National Expansion of Workplace Standard
Jan 16, 2014Three-year project will encourage national expansion of Workplace Standard The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), along with its partners, CSA Group (CSA) and Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ), joined Labour Minister ...
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Cardiovascular Comorbidities May Be Going Under-Recognized and Undertreated in Patients
Jan 13, 2014Cardiovascular comorbidities may be going under-recognized and undertreated in patients with bipolar disorder, say UK researchers. This is despite the UK having a healthcare system that is free at the point of access, they note. "This ...
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Extending Treatment with The Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix May Help Them Avoid a Relapse
Jan 9, 2014For people with serious mental illness who are trying to quit smoking, extending their treatment with the smoking cessation drug Chantix (varenicline) may help them avoid a relapse, according to a new study. After a standard 12-week ...
Tags: mental illness, quit smoking, Chantix, avoid relapse
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Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Are More Likely to Die Younger
Jan 3, 2014In the largest ever assessment of substance use among people with severe psychiatric illness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, ...
Tags: psychiatric illness, psychotic disorders, rates of smoking
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Significant Health Disparities Exist in New Jersey
Dec 30, 2013The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a coalition of public health organizations, has ranked New Jersey 51 in the nation, including Washington D.C., in protecting children from smoking and tobacco use. Experts at Robert Wood Johnson Medical ...
Tags: New Jersey, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Tobacco Settlement
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Belief That Mentally Ill Substance Abusers Are Most Frequent Users Is an "Urban Legend"
Dec 27, 2013The widely held belief that mentally ill substance abusers are the most frequent users of hospital emergency departments is an "urban legend," a new study claims. Researchers examined emergency room visits by more than 212,000 Medicaid ...
Tags: mentally ill substance abusers, Medicaid patients, substance abuse
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Skiing and Snowboarding Holidays Can Boost Your Overall Happiness
Dec 26, 2013A new study suggests that's a good idea, because skiing and snowboarding holidays can boost your overall happiness. Researchers surveyed 279 visitors at three major ski resorts in South Korea. Of those people, 126 were skiers, 112 were ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
