Recall in Part I that, although Pfizer’s angina treatment did little for the chest pain, it changed multiple thousands of lives in the bedroom when the scientists reincarnated it as Viagra. And date rape drug ketamine earned itself some points from ‘the good side’ when one study author found it to be “the biggest breakthrough […]
You may remember as far back as three and a half months ago when I brought down in the blog a graph that made it quite clear that, as Americans, we were both paying more than members of any other civilized country, and–to boot!–our rates of survival were surprisingly low. If you didn’t get a […]
September is Cancer Awareness Month for: Gynecologic cancer, Ovarian cancer, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Prostate cancer, and Thyroid cancer. Know the facts about each, and think about taking some of the suggested actions to support awareness. As the infographic shows–Cancer touches everyone. It’s important that we take the opportunity these Awareness months offer to learn what preventative […]
Clearly growing up with abusive parents is no great shakes no matter how you look at it. Early abuse has been correlated with later-life depression, stunted brain development, anxiety, alcohol abuse–and I’m just getting started. But, even knowing how damaging early childhood abuse is, a study caught my eye that surprised me, and brought home […]
Some cancers get a lot of ‘play time,’ whether due to their prevalence, or voracity, or good organization on the parts of their patients. Somehow skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the U.S., gets short shrift in the public eye. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t all around us, with potentially deadly […]
Even when still available, Thioridazine was anything but a first-line drug in treating psychosis or schizophrenia–and that was before it was withdrawn from the market. In the class of the first-generation or ‘typical’ antipsychotics, its main purpose was to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia–but the National Institute of Health felt it was dangerous enough that they […]
It has been ‘known’ in the way that you know things deep down, when you don’t really consciously want to know them, that seriously mentally ill people, on average, die younger than those without mental illness. But it was an ugly shock when the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Medical Directors Council published […]
If you were concerned after reading “More willing to fund criminal justice than mental health,” or “Just the Facts, Ma’am; The Numbers Don’t Lie: Not Servicing the Mentally Ill,” or merely after keeping abreast of cuts in mental health funding across the country (and the globe, really)–and aren’t up for a full-scale anti-Nato-like protest, there […]
May 21, 2012 by candidaabrahamson
“Some people still think of cancer as a death sentence. But the fact is that more than 12 million cancer survivors are living – and thriving – in the United States today. National Cancer Survivors Day is an opportunity for everyone to . . . celebrate that there is life after cancer.” ~ National Cancer […]
May 14 – May 20, 2012 is Schizophrenia Awareness Week (SAW) in Australia, kicking off Schizophrenia Awareness, sponsored by the Ministry of Mental Health, which will be followed up by the American SAW, May 20-26. While other illnesses get lets of ‘press time’ during the discussions about the newly updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, schizophrenia, a debilitating and […]
May 14, 2012 by candidaabrahamson
(picture by luigi diamanti) The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore We spend our lives making decisions that will impact the rest of our days on this earth. We pick a career, select a mate, decide to have children and how many, make lifestyle choices that effect our health, move […]
April 7, 2013 by rfinkel
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