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Researchers Seek to Improve Bipolar Disorder, Depression Treatment

...  seek to improve bipolar disorder, depression treatment “We don't have a lot of treatment options for the depression phase of bipolar disorder, which is very troubling from a public-health standpoint,” says Mark Frye, chairman of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “That's why clinicians still … Read more on Fox News Later life depression: Ask for help Despite such a significant number only a small percentage of this group receive treatment for this illness. According to Stephen Bartels, at the Centers for Health and Aging and Health at Dartmouth College, undertreatment often occurs because … Read more on Dayton Daily News Read ...

Cardiac Rehabilitation Helps Survival Time in Heart Patients Receiving Stent Therapy

...  Rehabilitation Helps Survival Time in Heart Patients Receiving Stent Therapy – A team of Mayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac rehabilitation is associated with significantly reduced mortality rates for patients who have had s…   Memorial Hospital and Heart Institute's Cardiac Rehab Center to start … … community—especially in Lufkin—we needed a Cardiac Rehabilitation Facility like this one, which is supervised by cardiologists and helped professionals like train registered nurses as well as exercise physiologists, and this adds credence to the ...

Gettysburg Woman's Experience Underscores the Need to Know Your Stroke Risk

...  woman's experience underscores the need to know your stroke risk It took nearly a year of hard work and rehabilitation to recover. Nutter had severe left hand tremors, left side weakness and motion-related nausea that kept her from eating. She had to learn to walk again and endured months of physical therapy before … Read more on The Patriot-News Home, sweet home: Progress made in one year After the accident I spent six weeks at the Mayo Clinic – St. Marys Hospital, first in an intensive care unit, then some weeks on the physical rehabilitation floor, 3 Mary Brigh. … She showed me a CT scan where lesions from the stroke show up in the … Read more on Bluff Country Reader Read ...

Mother, Daughter to Recount 'Chaos' of Bipolar at Mental Health Luncheon

...  of Bipolar at Mental Health Luncheon Through electroshock therapy, depression, mania, cutting, bulimia, drug and alcohol use, and endless struggles with the wrong medications, it was ultimately their trust and shared truths that helped Linea Johnson get her life back. The inspiring … Read more on Times of San Diego The Profound Power of the 9/11 Museum The unlikely strategy of using a live virus to treat cancer took yet another step forward this week with the news that scientists at the Mayo Clinic had treated two adults with the blood cancer, multiple myeloma, by injecting them with mega-doses of … Read more on Daily Beast Read ...

IT HAPPENED to ME: I'm a Singer-Songwriter and I Perform With an Oxygen

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I'm A Singer-Songwriter And I Perform With An Oxygen … I changed my diet, switching to a plant-based lifestyle, went to pulmonary rehabilitation three times a week, worked out on my own, and became committed to doing everything possible to get better. I force myself to keep an image in my mind of the … Read more on xoJane Florida Hospital to close Winter Park rehab center Florida Hospital has announced plans to close its Winter Park cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation center May 1 and will move those services to the hospital's downtown Orlando campus. A hospital spokesman said the move is being made as the company … Read more on Orlando Sentinel Read more... ...

Refugees to Sicily in 'Biblical Exodus'

Refugees to Sicily in 'Biblical Exodus' Although the lasting damage to the mental and physical health of prisoners can be severe, neither the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) nor the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Detainee Affairs provide much support or rehabilitation assistance to help … Read more on Daily Beast Teaching Billing and Coding Techniques Benefit Second-Year Students … of education “definitely fits into the curricula objectives in medical education,” says coauthor, Eric L. Altschuler, MD, associate professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the … Read more on OncLive Read more... ...

Bellingham High Grad Gets New Heart, New Hope for Life

...  High grad gets new heart, new hope for life He also had a clot in his brain stem, which caused some damage, but he is making progress and working towards a full recovery. Erik talks about his experience during his rehabilitation at the Providence Regional Medical Center. MATT MCDONALD — THE … Read more on Bellingham Herald Mayo Clinic study finds app reduces cardiac readmissions by 40 percent “We ask the patients when they first log in to insert all of their own metrics so when they start cardiac rehab, they input their own blood pressure, weight, glucose, minutes of physical activity, and their diet so they can get a good idea of where … Read more on mobihealthnews Read ...