Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative
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A provocative public service campaign on childrenâs psychiatric disorders has raised hackles as much as awareness.
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In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of i...
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Congress's bid to renew a program for poor children revives debate over healthcare.
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A British health charity called on Saturday for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness.
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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing worldâs children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
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Since Andrea Yates first stood trial on charges of drowning three of her five children, the facts of the case haven&#039;t changed. What her defense teams hopes has changed is the public&#039;s view of mentally ill defendants.
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For young people diagnosed with serious mental disorders, the transition from high school to college can be particularly fraught.
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Studies of children indicate that people may be inherently prejudiced against those less fortunate. Bah, humbug, indeed.
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A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real.
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In Bayside, Queens, a ward at St. Maryâs Hospital for Children does the careful work of breaking down childrenâs resistance to eating.
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For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves.
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Children throughout the world are increasingly prescribed antidepressants and other drugs designed to calm or stimulate their brains, according to two studies published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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Mental health advocates and defense attorneys hope the public&#039;s mindset about mentally ill defendants has changed in the five years since Andrea Yates filled her bathtub with water and drowned her five children.
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The recent controversy over antidepressants, children and suicide is really about trust. Sick people have to trust their doctor&#39;s judgment about the drugs they take.
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The number of prescriptions given to children under 16 for depression and mental health problems has quadrupled in 10 years.
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Children's Minister Margaret Hodge makes the case for the "unsung virtues" of state intervention in family life.
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A top children's charity claims one in ten of the UK's young people suffer mental health problems, but experts cast doubt on the findings.