Mental health plans are 'diluted'
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The government waters down plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients.
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Nearly two years after Katrina, an overburdened health care system cannot handle the city's mental health emergencies
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Most people in the world with mental illness get no treatment at all, and scarce mental health resources are not reaching the people who need them most, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Survey finds that patients with symptoms of depression and anxiety who combine drug and talk therapy tended to fare better than those who opt for "mostly drug" or "mostly talk" therapy.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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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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Funding for services for mentally ill people such as Seung Hui Cho has decreased nearly 10 percent in Virginia since 2000, eroding key programs for thousands of people with non-severe mental disorders, documents and interviews show.
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Asychiatrists, pediatricians and family practice doctors said in interviews that they would restrict their use of antidepressants in the wake of a federal advisory committee&#39;s decision that the medicines should contain severe warnings about the risks of
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MENTALLY ill patients were forced to sleep on the floor or kept in seclusion for days because of NSW&#39;s chronically under-resourced mental health system, a forum was told today.
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China plans to increase its efforts to prevent a further deterioration of mental health problems among its children and teenagers.
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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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Doctors warn that many mental health patients are being over-prescribed drugs that make no difference at all to them.
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Soldiers returning from war are finding it more difficult to get mental health treatment because military insurance is cutting payments to therapists, on top of already low reimbursement rates and a tangle of red tape.
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British health authorities tightened  warnings on popular Prozac-type antidepressants on Monday,  urging doctors to use them sparingly and consider non-drug  interventions, such as counseling.
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A survey of more than 3,000 patients with symptoms of depression and anxiety found that those who combined drugs and talk therapy tended to fare better overall than those who opted for &quot;mostly drug&quot; or &quot;mostly talk&quot; therapy.
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British health authorities tightened warnings on popular Prozac-type antidepressants on Monday, urging doctors to use them sparingly and consider non-drug interventions, such as counseling.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Problems with documentation of drug responses and child abuse screening and reporting are among the gaps in quality of care for children in California's public mental health clinics, says a University of California, Los Angeles-led study.