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Obama honors Fort Hood's fallen
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades.......Tags: Fort Hood Shootings (2009), FBI, Barack Obama, Veterans Affairs, Football
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Dawn Turner Trice: Making the most of postpartum depression
When Chicago clinical psychologist Susan Benjamin Feingold had postpartum depression more than two decades ago, not many people were taking the illness seriously. Some doctors were even telling women all they needed to do for their "baby blues" was to eat...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Stress, Mental Illness, Headaches, Symptoms
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Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects' hinges on medicine and murder ★★★
A sly one, "Side Effects" is a movie in which the main character's pharmacological state of mind is never entirely certain. In such a role it's critical to have someone who can keep an audience guessing as to the state of that mind, moment to moment....
Tags: Psychiatrists, Health and Medical Professionals, David Fincher, Pharmaceuticals, Steven Soderbergh
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Brain issues in back of Fencik's mind
Gary Fencik plans to watch Sunday's Super Bowl on a big screen TV from the comfort of his own home. The former Bears safety, who played in Super Bowl XX in New Orleans, also says he enjoys the comfort of not knowing whether he might be predisposed to...
Tags: Chicago Bears, Football, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Dave Duerson, Sports
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A lifeline for parents concerned about a child's mental health
Lynn Goodloe saw her son's grades begin to fall as he developed a knack for getting into mischief at a private Westside high school. Was it a phase, drugs or something more troubling? Harold Turner didn't know what to make of his daughter's disorganized...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatrists, Human Interest, Barack Obama, Mental Illness
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Connecticut school shooting prompts discussions on mental health
The tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn. is prompting new discussions on how to properly handle the issue of mental illness among young people. People around the nation read a widely circulated essay titled "I am Adam Lanza's mom." Blogger Liza Long...
Tags: Autism, Mental Illness, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Shooting Raises Vexing Mental Health Issues
The Hartford CourantDespair at the massacre of innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown will spur action from political leaders. It will also remind us of our limitations. There will be changes in laws regulating the manufacture, sale and use of guns....Tags: Mental Illness, Saint Francis Care, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Best life lessons from 2012
As the year 2012 comes to a close, it's time to look back at all the experts' wisdom given to me for this column over the past year. Here is a list of some of my favorite tips, which range from relationship advice to career focus. Enjoy, and let's have...
Tags: Human Interest, Psychiatrists, Health and Medical Professionals, Authors, Mental Health
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How to be grateful during times of stress
The other night I started a new tradition in my home: I asked my 6-year-old son to tell me what he's grateful for before he goes to sleep. "What does 'grateful' mean?" he asked. "The things that make you happy," I said. His eyes beamed, and he...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatrists, Mental Health, Medical Specialization
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Celebrating a tool of death
Saturday is Gun Appreciation Day, an occasion to feel good about a consumer product that is guaranteed to play a role in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans this year. That's not hyperbole. Roughly 30,000 people have been killed annually by...Tags: Shootings, Litigation and Regulation, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Can we make people change?
I have this terrible habit — I keep hoping people will change. It's not like they ever do, but for some reason I keep going back to the well — and that well continues to be empty. Sound familiar? That's because according to experts, most of us...
Tags: Authors, Harvard Medical School, Medical Specialization
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Some memory changes in aging brain are normal
Dementia and its evil twin, Alzheimer's, may have moved ahead of cancer on the list of most feared diseases, especially among baby boomers, who have begun to believe it is their inescapable fate if they have the bad luck to live too long.
So we grasp...Tags: Entertainment Events, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Concerts, Hospitals and Clinics
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