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(Medical Xpress)—Living with someone with schizophrenia can have a positive impact on their family, according to a preliminary study by QUT. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-families-benefit-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 03 May 2013 07:40:01 EST news286782690 A world first trial has found intervention by general practitioners (GPs) in cases of domestic violence made impacts on women's symptoms of depression but not their quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-local-gp-intervention-positive-women.html Health Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:30:28 EST news285489022 Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-children-divorced-parents.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:10:20 EST news282478146 Canada needs to reform its patchwork system of prison health care that does not adequately care for prisoners' complex health care needs, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-prison-health-canada-cmaj-editorial.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:00:02 EST news281614706 (HealthDay)—One in five Americans knows a victim of gun violence and four in 10 are worried about becoming the victim of gun violence, according to a new poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-americans-victim-gun-violence-poll.html Health Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:31:21 EST news281367053 Around one in 10 young teens with mental health issues also drinks alcohol, smokes cigarettes, and uses cannabis on a weekly basis, indicates Australian research published in the online only fully journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-young-mentally-ill-teens-cannabis.html Health Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:30:06 EST news279204447 (HealthDay)—A new study casts doubt on the value of current professional treatments for teens who struggle with mental disorders and thoughts of suicide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-teens-suicide-treatment.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:20:01 EST news276968698 (Medical Xpress)—Women with significantly lower levels of education than their parents are at higher risk of poor mental health, a new University of Queensland study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-women-mothers-poor-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:00:01 EST news276935592 (HealthDay)— In the aftermath of the mass shooting that claimed the lives of 20 children in Newtown, Conn., last Friday, voices around the nation are asking, "How could this have happened?" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mental-health-kids.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:30:01 EST news275069436 (HealthDay)—If children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, continue to have the condition in adulthood, a new study suggests that they may face an array of physical and mental health issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-adhd-lifelong-problems.html Attention deficit disorders Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:50:02 EST news274357729 Patients with mental illness visiting emergency departments in Ontario have shorter waits to see a doctor during crowded periods and only slightly longer waits during less busy periods, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-psychiatric-emergency-departments.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:00:11 EST news271941311 an issue in most prisons in Canada and other parts of the world—negatively impacts the mental and physical health of prisoners, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-overcrowding-prisons-negatively-affects-health.html Health Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:00:14 EST news271335056 Childhood bullying can lead to long term health consequences, including general and mental health issues, behavioral problems, eating disorders, smoking, alcohol use, and homelessness, a study by the Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bullying-long-term-health-consequences.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:40:02 EST news270836555 Many con­t­a­m­i­nants are easy for the public to spot, like emis­sions from the tailpipe of a car or the sludge from a mas­sive oil spill washing up on the ocean's shores. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-big-visions-environmental-health-issues.html Health Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:23:30 EST news268899800 A new report, published today, provides an in-depth examination into why men from disadvantaged backgrounds in their 30s, 40s and 50s are at higher risk of suicide than the rest of society. Men from low socio-economic backgrounds living in deprived areas are ten times more likely to die by suicide than men from high socio-economic backgrounds living in the most affluent areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-uk-middle-aged-men-die-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:50:12 EST news267432601 To promote good parenting, Canada should remove section 43 of its Criminal Code because it sends the wrong message that using physical punishment to discipline children is acceptable, argues Dr. John Fletcher, Editor-in-Chief, CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) in an editorial. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-canada-section-criminal-code-physical.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:00:06 EST news265963876 Many refugees to the U.S. travel thousands of miles to a safe harbor, but once here find that adjusting to linguistic and cultural differences is an equally daunting task, according to new research to be presented by two University of Dayton sociologists at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-refugees-greater-immigrants.html Health Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:00:01 EST news264555355 A study of teenage girls with eating disorders has shown that reduced essential fatty acid levels returned to normal once the girls increased their weight to a healthy level. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-girls-disorders-regain-healthy-fatty.html Pediatrics Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:19:56 EST news261739189 When it comes to dealing with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, elite athletes are ‘just like us’, and ‘just like us’ they need help, research from The Australian National University reveals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-smoother-elite-athletes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:30:04 EST news260785105 A study published in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that young children who have been investigated for maltreatment by child welfare agencies have a higher prevalence of mental health problems and that very few receive treatment for those problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-child-welfare-mental-health-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:24:25 EST news259320258 (Edmonton) Teen mothers are far more likely to suffer abuse and postpartum depression than older moms, according to a study of Canadian women's maternity experiences by a University of Alberta researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-canadian-teen-moms-higher-abuse.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:29:48 EST news259248580 First Nations children and those from families receiving government subsidies had more return visits to emergency departments for mental health crises than other socioeconomic groups, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-nations-low-income-children-emergency-departments.html Health Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:00:51 EST news258632269 People who survive cancer when they are teenagers or young adults are more likely than their peers who never had cancer to engage in risky behaviors like smoking later on, a US study said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-woes-persist-young-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:30:46 EST news258607558 Long-term use and abuse of opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, has markedly increased in the United States in the last two decades. Of note, prescription opioids constitute 86.9 percent of prescription drug misuse among high school students. And last week in a two-day U.S. Food and Drug Administration public meeting, officials questioned the use of long-term opioids for chronic pain due to a lack of evidence for the effectiveness and concerns about the potential risk for addiction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-adolescents-young-adults-mental-health.html Medications Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:30:22 EST news258222616 Researchers who examined the income levels of patients at central Toronto hospitals found that people in the highest and lowest income brackets are being hospitalized for different reasons and that different hospitals serve different income groups. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-richest-poorest-people-toronto-hospitalized.html Health Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:53:33 EST news258029607 Suicides among US army personnel rose 80 per cent between 2004 and 2008, finds research by US Army Public Health Command and published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-army-suicides-rose-percent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250359449 (Medical Xpress) -- While University of South Carolina researcher Dana DeHart was visiting jails to interview inmates about their backgrounds, she kept seeing a woman who clearly had mental health issues, yet continued to cycle in and out of the jail. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-majority-women-mental-issues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:32:03 EST news242551902 A leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder is guilt that troops experience because of moral dilemmas faced in combat, according to preliminary findings of a study of active-duty Marines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-guilt-factor-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:10:01 EST news242383054 Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mentally-ill-veterans-good-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:22:41 EST news238260151 Canada needs to adopt a national suicide prevention strategy, and physicians can play a key role in the strategy, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-canada-national-suicide-strategy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:23:26 EST news238072992