Kaine Seeks to Bolster Mental Health Funding
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced a plan yesterday to pump $42 million into Virginia's troubled mental heath system, a proposal that advocates and state officials said is the beginning of an intense discussion about how aggressively the state should adopt reform.
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The Pentagon's top health official said Thursday he wants to see better mental health assessments, stronger privacy protections and a "buddy system" to change the military's stigma against seeking help for anxiety and depression.
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As lawmakers discuss adjustments to Virginia's budget, they will see that the state's share of health care costs continues to be one of the driving forces.
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The Government must publish a specific strategy to tackle the state of the mental health service, it was urged today. Labourâs health spokeswoman Liz McManus said efforts must be
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The Health Ministry budget for treating psychiatric patients is short NIS 180 million, according to new research by the nonprofit Taub Center for Social Policy in Jerusalem.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson pledged Monday to add mental health services at more than 100 VA medical centers to fight resistance to seeking help for depression and other illnesses.
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RICHMOND -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is planning to visit Northern Virginia today to launch a final push to help his fellow Democrats make substantial gains in the Republican-controlled General Assembly in next Tuesday's elections.
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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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One of the house parties sponsored by the Republican candidate uses the Sept. 11 date for fund-raising.
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The head of one of the world's largest funders of biomedical research is has said that he's set to substantially increase funding.
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RICHMOND, Dec. 14 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) on Thursday proposed spending an additional $500 million next year on transportation projects but said that the one-time expense would do little to solve the state's worsening traffic problems unless the General Assembly agrees to raise taxes or fees.
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Money to wire schools and libraries  to the Internet and help fund rural health care should resume  flowing soon, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman  Michael Powell said on Wednesday, a day after lawmakers  attacked the agency for stopping funds.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 25 -- The Virginia House of Delegates took a major step toward strengthening the state's mental health laws Friday as a panel passed legislation that would ease the standard by which mentally ill people can be involuntarily committed to hospitals, an issue raised after the Virginia...
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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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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 13--RICHMOND -- Gov. Tim Kaine will ask state lawmakers to increase the pay of public school teachers by 3 percent next year and to fund pilot projects to expand access to pre-kindergarten programs when they amend Virginia's two-year budget.