Gates Vows to Fix Mental Health System
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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates promised Thursday to speed up changes to the military's much-criticized mental health system, declaring "this is something that we can, must and will get fixed."
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President Bush signed legislation yesterday aimed at preventing the severely mentally ill from buying guns, a bill backed by both parties after the bloody Virginia Tech University shooting.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday branded the outpatient care of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan "unacceptable" and promised officials would be held accountable for the failings.
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New software could help mental-health professionals assess patients and ensure that salespeople project a positive attitude.
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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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New federal legislation would provide grants to help counties and states establish and expand mental health services for people in the legal system or who have been incarcerated.
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The head of the Gates Foundation's Infectious Disease Programs explains the group's investment process
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Buried deep in the review panel's report on the massacre at Virginia Tech is a finding that many mental health professionals already knew quite clearly: The state's system for treating the mentally ill "has major gaps in its entirety."
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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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Microsoft Corp.  adopted a new mantra on Thursday, promising to work harder to make its software work better with other software systems and hardware, Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail to customers.
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This is the text of testimony that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave today before the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
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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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Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake conceded Wednesday that the agency must do more to reach out to Guard and Reserve troops who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan about the mental health help available to them.
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Accra, Dec. 16, GNA - It is estimated that 30 per cent of people in any community would suffer or show symptoms of mental illness in the course of their lives, Dr Sammy Allotey, Medical Director, Pantang Hospital, said on Thursday.
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After two months of public hearings by the state panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre, one thing has emerged most clearly: The state's system of dealing with the mentally ill is in almost desperate need of repair.
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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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New research shows mental illness is neglected in the developing world and up to 800,000 commit suicide each year.