Bipolar disorder difficult to diagnose.
Byline: YOUR HEALTH By Heather Hill For The Register-Guard Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that occurs in about 1 percent of the population. It is a disorder of abnormal mood and behaviors with emotional swings that are more than just the...

SUPPORT GROUPS.
Byline: The Register-Guard AL-ANON and ALATEEN - 741-2841 or www.ola-is.org for meeting schedule. Alcoholics Anonymous - 342-4113 or http://aaevi.org for meeting schedule. Alzheimer's support group - 1 p.m., first and third Mondays, United Lutheran Church, 2230 Washington St. 683-3618. Better Breathers...

The APA releases new report: abortion no threat to mental health.
The American Psychological Association (APA) has just released a report indicating that there is no solid scientific evidence that abortion causes mental distress in women. (1) This is a timely refutation of the fiction, promoted by anti-choice activists for several decades, that having an abortion harms women's mental health....

Now if we just had some evidence.
The beauty of EP magazine is that despite the multitude of disorders, disabilities, and diseases that are reflected in the realm of acquired or inherited challenges, one experience has been universally shared by parents. At one time or another, they all have read the sentence, "There is presently no...

Forest Laboratories, Inc. Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2009 Earnings per Share of $0.80.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. , an international pharmaceutical manufacturer and marketer, today announced that fully diluted earnings per share equaled $0.80 in the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Reported earnings per share in the September 2007 quarter were $0.71. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001011/FORESTLOGO )...

Sarah Kane's Blasted.
9780826492043 Sarah Kane's Blasted. Iball, Helen. Continuum Publishing Group 2008 121 pages $90.00 Hardcover Continuum modern theatre guides PR6061 This entry of the Modern Theatre Guides series from Continuum...

Physical activity and diabetes: opportunities for prevention through policy.
Diabetes and its complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and contribute substantially to health care costs. The first article in this special issue reviews what is currently known about the pathophysiology and epidemiology of diabetes. (1) Type 2 diabetes, previously referred to as...

Vitality; the best of living and how to get it.
9780875866185 Vitality; the best of living and how to get it. Esser, Richard. Algora Publishing 2008 240 pages $22.95 Paperback RA790 Esser has been practicing psychiatry for over 40 years, specializing...

New Data, New Directions in the Management of Mood and Anxiety Disorders.
VIENNA, Austria, November 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - 8th International Forum for Mood and Anxiety Disorders Congress Roundup Clinicians and researchers from around the world attended this week's 8th International Forum on Mood and Anxiety disorders in Vienna, Austria to discuss the latest advances in the treatment of...

Rumors shaped veterans' view of Gulf War ills: syndrome was defined by informal communication.
After the bullets stopped flying the rumors took off among British veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Early accounts of physical and emotional reactions to wartime experiences spread from one person to another through networks of veterans. Within a few years, these former soldiers had decided among themselves that...