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UK | Mental health reform plans 'breach human rights' | Controversial government reforms of mental health law would violate patients' human rights by infringing on their dignity and autonomy, legal experts warned recently | The draft mental health bill, currently undergoing parliamentary scrutiny, would breach the European convention on human rights (ECHR), according to the Law Society and the Bar Council | In evidence to a committee of peers and MPs, the Law Society raised concerns that the proposed legislation would significantly extend compulsory treatment, while lowering the threshold for its use |
According to the new proposals, people with mental health problems could be forcibly treated in hospital or the community, even if they have full control of their faculties or comply with their care | THE FULL STORY |
Pfizer's Celebrex Linked to Deaths | Documents from Canadian health authorities show that Pfizer Inc.'s painkiller Celebrex is suspected of contributing to at least 14 deaths and other heart and brain side effects, according to the National Post newspaper in Toronto. The documents include more than 100 adverse-reaction reports on Celebrex over the past five years, including five strokes and 19 cases of heart attack, cardiac arrest or heart failure. | THE FULL STORY [P.S. Check out the Celebrex adverts on the sidebar]
Britain's largest drug company unveils plan to push 'happy' pills | Health campaigners accuse the firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), of putting profit before the therapeutic needs of patients by attempting to broaden the market for the drug which has been linked to a spate of suicides | THE FULL STORY |
E. Fuller Torrey's own research site indicates that Antipsychotic drugs change brain structure | Antipsychotic drugs, used to treat schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder), change some aspects of brain structure, as do drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and other brain diseases. Some of the brain changes appear to be related to the efficacy of the antipsychotic drugs, while other changes are probably related to the side effects of the drugs. Studying the brain changes may eventually lead to a better understanding of how they work and the prediction of which individuals are most likely to respond to which drugs and which patients are most likely to develop side effects, include tardive dyskinesia | THE FULL STORY |
Watching TV linked to Attendtion Deficit Disorder | certainkly not new nes [first note din April 2004] this still warrants notice | A new study published in the April issue of Pediatrics says the more boob tube youngsters watch between the ages of one and three, the greater the risk of having attention problems later in life | Researchers insist that each hour of television taken in by preschoolers---increases the risk of attention deficit disorder, or ADD, by almost ten percent later on in life.
ADD is a serious problem in this country.. In the United States---between three and five percent of children are diagnosed with the syndrome----which is marked by reduced ability to concentrate and difficulty in organizing and impulsive behavior. Symptoms usually do not typically show up age seven | THE FULL STORY |
UK | Mental health reform plans 'breach human rights' | Controversial government reforms of mental health law would violate patients' human rights by infringing on their dignity and autonomy, legal experts warned recently | The draft mental health bill, currently undergoing parliamentary scrutiny, would breach the European convention on human rights (ECHR), according to the Law Society and the Bar Council | In evidence to a committee of peers and MPs, the Law Society raised concerns that the proposed legislation would significantly extend compulsory treatment, while lowering the threshold for its use |
According to the new proposals, people with mental health problems could be forcibly treated in hospital or the community, even if they have full control of their faculties or comply with their care | THE FULL STORY |
Pfizer's Celebrex Linked to Deaths | Documents from Canadian health authorities show that Pfizer Inc.'s painkiller Celebrex is suspected of contributing to at least 14 deaths and other heart and brain side effects, according to the National Post newspaper in Toronto. The documents include more than 100 adverse-reaction reports on Celebrex over the past five years, including five strokes and 19 cases of heart attack, cardiac arrest or heart failure. | THE FULL STORY [P.S. Check out the Celebrex adverts on the sidebar]
Britain's largest drug company unveils plan to push 'happy' pills | Health campaigners accuse the firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), of putting profit before the therapeutic needs of patients by attempting to broaden the market for the drug which has been linked to a spate of suicides | THE FULL STORY |
E. Fuller Torrey's own research site indicates that Antipsychotic drugs change brain structure | Antipsychotic drugs, used to treat schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder), change some aspects of brain structure, as do drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and other brain diseases. Some of the brain changes appear to be related to the efficacy of the antipsychotic drugs, while other changes are probably related to the side effects of the drugs. Studying the brain changes may eventually lead to a better understanding of how they work and the prediction of which individuals are most likely to respond to which drugs and which patients are most likely to develop side effects, include tardive dyskinesia | THE FULL STORY |
Watching TV linked to Attendtion Deficit Disorder | certainkly not new nes [first note din April 2004] this still warrants notice | A new study published in the April issue of Pediatrics says the more boob tube youngsters watch between the ages of one and three, the greater the risk of having attention problems later in life | Researchers insist that each hour of television taken in by preschoolers---increases the risk of attention deficit disorder, or ADD, by almost ten percent later on in life.
ADD is a serious problem in this country.. In the United States---between three and five percent of children are diagnosed with the syndrome----which is marked by reduced ability to concentrate and difficulty in organizing and impulsive behavior. Symptoms usually do not typically show up age seven | THE FULL STORY |
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