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    Smoking Cessation Treatments Work And Are Safe For People With Severe Mental Illness

    In a study published in the journal Addiction, researchers have determined that treatment for smoking dependence is as effective among people with severe mental illnesses as it is for the general population. Importantly, they also found that offering such treatments does not appear to cause...
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    Stigma Of Mental Illness To Be Addressed By Actress Glenn Close At Neuroscience 2010

    Neuroscience 2010, the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), will showcase distinguished speakers and new research findings on the brain, nervous system, and related disorders Nov. 13-17 in San Diego. The Society's annual meeting is the world's largest source of emerging...
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    CAK ~ Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness....?

    ...-- Ellie Katz So here are a few laughs.... Welcome to Humor Vault's Doctor Jokes Doctor Jokes A doctor was having an affair with his nurse. Shortly afterward, she told him that she was pregnant. Not wanting his wife to know, he gave the nurse a sum of money and asked her to go to Italy and...
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    Report: George Karl to take medical leave because of ?serious illness?

    The Denver Nuggets have called a 7 p.m. MT news conference where head coach George Karl will make an announcement. While many thought it would an announcement concerning an upcoming trade, or possibly comments on his latest contract extension, News 9 in Denver is reporting that Karl has a...
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    Report: George Karl to take medical leave because of ?serious illness?

    The Denver Nuggets have called a 7 p.m. MT news conference where head coach George Karl will make an announcement. While many thought it would an announcement concerning an upcoming trade, or possibly comments on his latest contract extension, News 9 in Denver is reporting that Karl has a...
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    Caring For The Carers Of Those With Mental Illness, Australia

    The University of Queensland has joined a consortium trialling a new support program for families caring for relatives with mental illness. The Manager of UQ's Research Centre for Youth Substance Abuse, Dr Angela White, said families in this situation often experienced significant levels of...
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    Prolonged Immigration Detention Puts Detainees At Higher Risk Of Mental Illness

    Asylum seekers and other detainees who are held in Australian immigration detention centres for long periods of time are more likely to require medical attention for mental health problems than those detained for a shorter time, according to the results of research published in the Medical...
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    Prolonged Immigration Detention Puts Detainees At Higher Risk Of Mental Illness

    Asylum seekers and other detainees who are held in Australian immigration detention centres for long periods of time are more likely to require medical attention for mental health problems than those detained for a shorter time, according to the results of research published in the Medical...
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    Prolonged Immigration Detention Puts Detainees At Higher Risk Of Mental Illness

    Asylum seekers and other detainees who are held in Australian immigration detention centres for long periods of time are more likely to require medical attention for mental health problems than those detained for a shorter time, according to the results of research published in the Medical...
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    Of the ten leading causes of illness and death, how many are associated directly

    with nutrition? Of the ten leading causes of illness and death, how many are associated directly with nutrition? a. 1 b. 4 c. 7 d. 10 ^^is that 4? I have been reading but its coming up different answer!^^
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    Can a Christian have a mental illness?

    I'm a born again Christian but I have problems with getting depressed and having obsessive thoughts that I worry over. I've prayed, I've went to church, I've read some of the Bible but I still have to take medications for my mental illness. The thing that upsets me my Christian friends think...
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    Is schizophrenia an illness or do they really hear voices?

    Some people believe they actually hear voices. Some believe this is an illness others believe they do hear spirits. What is your opinion? "Hearing voices when there is no one there is the commonest hallucination in schizophrenia. The voices sound so real that the hearer is convinced that they...
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    Do pediatricians use drawings/pictures/visual images to communicate illness to a

    child? I am doing a research assingment and I am wondering if pediatricians/pediatric nurses use visual images (drawings, art works, pictures) to tell the child abou their sickness? For example, does a pediatrician use "pictures" to tell a child about his or her sickness. If not how do they...
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    why this change of behavior?which illness?

    first she was harassing her ex where he's preaching in an anonymous forum, insulting, contradicting, mocking etc she passed one year doing that. he cursed her many times. now she made a fake and add many communities where he's discussing about the Bible. she is ignoring him, or when someone...
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    Why is it people are taking Jade Goody's illness as a joke? I admire her for her

    courage at this sad time and? think of her two sons who are about to face life with the one person they need the most. Their mum.........
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    2-for-1 illness sale...?

    I've discovered today that I have a sore throat (i.e. common cold) and with it came a temporary bout of labyrinthitis (kind of like a nauseous, drunken, forgetful feeling mixed with an ear infection). Since all of the "how do I get rid of a sore throat" answers contradict each other, I thought...
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    What causes mental illness? Heredity, nutrition or environment?

    A friend of mine who I still consider a wonderful person suddenly became mentally ill a few years back. Now he can't remember anybody and keeps talking to himself.
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    Going through some type of illness health issue... what the (blank) is going on?

    I went to the doctor but it will be a while before I get any information because they sent off the blood work. I have severe migraines, brown urine, fatigue. I am fairly young, thirsty and I don't urinate as much even though I drink 64 oz of water or better because I am so thirsty. My thyroid...
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    is there such an illness that causes uncontrolled crying?

    i wake up crying, i cry in the stores, i cry watching commercials, i cry just because and don't konw why, i try to control the tears but it doesn't always work and the tears come out more along with the sobbing. ok, some can say it is depression, but how much crying can a depressed person cry...
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    How do you keep distance with someone dealing with mental illness?

    My friends dad was recently diagnosed as bipolar but he is refusing treatment even though he is having episode after episode, arrested, taking off, irrational. My friend has done everything to help her dad, her mom and rest of the family pretend its not there. She's frustrated and wants to...
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