Month: April 2013

Dr. William Jarrod Stewart’s young patients in Arkansas may have been sedated with contaminated drugs.        

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds.

By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama proposed a $3.77 trillion budget on Wednesday that combines controversial cuts to social safety net programs with tax increases on the wealthy in a package the White House hopes will jumpstart deficit-reduction talks. The proposal, an annual attempt to identify and fund the president's policy desires, is unlikely ever to become law. Its deficit cutting measures mirror an outline Obama put forward last year that was rejected by John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives. …

Dr. Dick Haselow’s young patients in Arkansas may have been sedated with contaminated drugs.        

BasicNeeds firmly believes that mental health is a basic right and not a privilege. However, for the millions of people living in poverty, mental illness is a world of isolation, fear, abuse and neglect. Suffering from schizophrenia, Bernard Mapunda from Tanzania was called a “crazy fellow” by people in his village as he fought with children and adults and quarrelled with people wherever he went. He used to walk aimlessly around the village and would be found sleeping atop trees.

In a provocative new study, scientists reported Wednesday that they were able to "see" pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell whether a drug was relieving it. Though the research is in its early stages, it opens the door to a host of possibilities.

President Obama is asking for $235 million as part of his new budget proposal to fund mental health initiatives. A portion of the funds will be used to target mental illness in youths by training teachers and others to identify signs of mental illness in students and provide them with access to treatment.        

By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite lingering concerns that using fertility drugs might raise a woman’s chances for later developing ovarian cancer, new research suggests the drugs don’t contribute any added risk. “One important message is women who need to use fertility drugs to get pregnant should not worry about using these fertility drugs,” said Dr. Albert Asante, lead author of the study and a clinical fellow in the division of reproductive endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Research on fertility drugs and cancer risk has yielded conflicting results. …