Neural circuits foster oversensitivity: borderline personality patients activate brain in specific ways.
People diagnosed with the mental ailment known as borderline personality disorder hemorrhage emotion. Real or perceived rejections, losses or even minor slights trigger depression and other volatile reactions that can lead to suicide. New brain-imaging research suggests that in such people specific neural circuits foster extreme emotional...

Keeping veterans alive.
Byline: The Register-Guard Suicide among veterans is a long-standing problem - the number of Vietnam veterans who have taken their own lives now exceeds the number killed in combat. Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are in most respects no different than those who fought in earlier...

Strong pictures get the point across: teens put life (and art) up on a billboard.
Teens have issues! They talk about suicide and war. They experiment with drugs, drinking and smoking. Their lives may have been touched by abuse, gangs or guns. Young people worry about these issues and many others as they work out their emerging identities and race toward their futures. ...

LUZON NEWSBITS.
Pregnant teenager commits suicide BAGUIO CITY -- A 16-year-old girl who was reportedly four-months pregnant died in a hospital here last Wednesday four days after she allegedly tried to commit suicide by hanging. The girl tried to kill herself after her live-in partner returned to this mountain...

VISAYAS NEWSBITS.
Pa commits suicide after killing two kids CEBU CITY -- A man allegedly killed himself yesterday after he strangled to death his two small children, a boy and a girl, inside the apartelle unit they were renting on Escario St., this city. The morbid news greeted returning...

MINDANAO NEWSBITS.
Army intensifies operation against Mindanao rebels BUTUAN CITY - Maj. Gen. Ricardo A. David, Jr., area command chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Northeastern and Northern Mindanao Fourth Infantry Division (ID) ordered yesterday all brigade and battalion commanders as well as operational control (Opcon)...

Veteran shares heavy burden of war baggage.
Byline: The Register-Guard I have a reading recommendation for the Pentagon folks who recently decided against awarding Purple Hearts to veterans and soldiers suffering from post- traumatic stress disorder: Norman Bussel's "My Private War" (Pegasus Books, 2008). It's long on honesty, candor and humor, short...

Former Federal Prosecutor Sued for Wrongful Death.
ATLANTA, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A former Assistant United States Attorney, Aaron Danzig, has been accused of grossly overreached in his investigation in the case versus Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals and its executives. According to a lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court case number 2009CV164522, it has resulted in the...

Hearing Aids Offer Hope for Those Who Suffer from Persistent 'Ringing in the Ears,' Better Hearing Institute Survey Finds.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Hearing aids can offer hope of better hearing for people who suffer from tinnitus, according to a recent survey conducted by the non-profit educational organization Better Hearing Institute (BHI). The survey of 230 hearing health professionals in the United States and Canada found that...

Borderline.
SAY "Borderline" to me and the first thing that comes to mind is the certified gold 1980s pop hit by Madonna. Curiously, Time magazine talks of "borderline" in a less aural context and instead refers to a personality disorder popular in this decade. It's called the "borderline personality disorder."...