HEALTH-EUROPE:  Mental Illness Emerges as Unseen Killer
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HELSINKI, Jan 18 (IPS) - Mental illness is emerging as âEurope's unseen  killerâ, medical experts said at a meeting here over the weekend.
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Psychiatric patients released into the community have killed over 400 people in eight years, a study will say.
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Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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A new study reveals that 1/3rd of returning veterans have a diagnosed mental illness, and young soldiers are paticularly vulnerable
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Do you face a tough daily ride to work, spend hours stuck in a traffic jam? If so, your health could be in danger according to a German medical study which lends new meaning to the concept of a &quot;killer commute.
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The darkness of the soul encounters the science of pharmaceuticals.
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A ruling by Switzerland's highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.
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"Even if you are a refugee, there is nobody who cannot access health care in the U.K."  When Penny Campbell fell ill after a routine surgery in March 2005, the 41-year-old mother did what many Britons are instructed to do to avoid clogging up the country's emergency rooms: She called a telephone help line staffed by doctors.With worsening symptoms over the next four days, Campbell spoke to six doctors and saw two in person. When she was finally diagnosed with a blood infection, it was too late: Hours later, Campbell died from multi-organ failure.A government report blames a 'major systems failure' in the socialized health service's ability to access care outside doctors' normal working hours. The case stands in contrast to the praise lavished on Europe's socialized health systems in Michael Moore's new documentary, 'Sicko,' opening nationally this weekend. Read more
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Researchers said on Monday they have pinpointed the reason some drugs used to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia cause patients to gain a lot of weight, raising hope for developing drugs without this side effect.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.
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No matter where in the world they live, people who are young, single, female, poorly educated or mentally ill are at higher risk of suicide, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.
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Diabetes is an undetected and silent threat for many people who end up with heart disease, according to new research published on Monday.
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A top policeman wants the law to make it easier for doctors to identify mentally ill patients who could become killers.
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Government plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients are likely to be watered-down.
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Noted academic Elyn Saks hid her illness for years. Now in a new book she opens up about what it's like to have a severe mental illness