News: November 2011
The following is an archive of the news from November 2011.
 | Adasuve Approaches FDA Deadline by Daniel Bader - 11-30-2011 Adasuve is a technology designed to help bipolar and schizophrenic patients to reduce agitation rapidly. It delivers the antipsychotic drug, Loxaprine, into the patient's lungs. This allows the drug to me administered extremely quickly, but with le... |
 | MRIs May Help With Depression: Scientific American by Daniel Bader - 11-29-2011 Scientific American published an interesting article yesterday about some of the surprising results that researchers have been finding during studies using MRIs on people with both major depressive disorder and bipolar depression. People who were ge... |
 | Joyce Licht Sang Wins Woman of Distinction Award by Daniel Bader - 11-28-2011 Joyce Licht Sang, the founder of the Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation, will receive the Woman of Distinction Award from Palm Beach Atlantic University this February. After her bipolar son, Ryan, committed suicide at the age of 24, Ms. Sang has bee... |
 | Margaret Trudeau To Speak on Inclusive Employment in NS by Daniel Bader - 11-25-2011 Next week, on November 30th and December 1st, the annual Symposium on Inclusive Education and Employment will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This year will focus on the issue of employment (and unemployment) among people with disabilities. At ... |
 | Bipolar Blues Artist Sean Costello Releases Final Album by Daniel Bader - 11-24-2011 Sean Costello died of an accidental drug overdose in 2008 at the age of 28. At the time, he was one of the most promising young blues musicians in the world, having released five albums and having played literally thousands live live performances. ... |
 | Twelve States Sue Johnson & Johnson Over Risperdal by Daniel Bader - 11-23-2011 A total of twelve states have sued or are suing the drug company Johnson & Johnson over marketing tactics for their atypical antipsychotic medication, Risperdal. Louisiana and South Carolina have each won judgements of over $250 million each in thei... |
 | Guilty Pleas in Florida Medicare Fraud by Daniel Bader - 11-22-2011 Defendants have started to plead guilty in a series of major medicare fraud charges in Florida. American Therapeutic, Corp. allegedly paid kickbacks to people who provided them with patients, and then billed Medicare for services that were either un... |
 | Antipsychotic Prescriptions Higher in Foster Care by Daniel Bader - 11-21-2011 The New York Times printed an article yesterday about the high rates of antipsychotic prescription among youth in foster care, compared to those among disabled and poor youth. 9.2 percent of youth in foster care had been given antipsychotic medicati... |
 | Bipolar Children May Assess Faces Differently by Daniel Bader - 11-18-2011 According to a study presented at the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, children with bipolar disorder focus on different features of people when asked to assess their emotions. Unlike most children, who focus primarily on the eyes, children wi... |
 | Glenn Close: Advocate For Mental Health by Daniel Bader - 11-17-2011 Glenn Close, the Oscar-winning actress from such films as Fatal Attraction, is also the co-founder of a group that seeks to extend care for and eliminate stigma toward those with mental illnesses. She and her sister, Jessie Close, who suffers from b... |
 | CA Family Receives $2.2 Million After Attempted Suicide by Daniel Bader - 11-16-2011 A family has just won a $2.2 settlement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after their 16-year-old daughter attempted suicide in the mental ward of Camarillo Youth Correctional Facility. Their daughter, Shanelle Crawfor... |
 | BC Hospital Opens Clinic For Youth Taking Antipsychotics by Daniel Bader - 11-15-2011 BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver opened a clinic in April to help youth under the age of 18 deal with the side effects of atypical antipsychotic drugs. Atypical antipsychotics, especially risperidone (Risperdal), have been increasingly prescribed... |
 | Bipolar Cyclist Michael Schratter Completes World Tour by Daniel Bader - 11-14-2011 Michael Schratter, a teacher from Vancouver, has spent the last eighteen months traveling around the world by bicycle to raise awareness of mental illness. The trip was called "Ride Don't Hide", and sought to reduce the stigma around mental illness ... |
 | State Mental Health Funding Cut By $1.1B Since 2009 by Daniel Bader - 11-12-2011 The National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released a report detailing $1.6 billion dollars per year in cuts to mental health funding by various U.S. states since the 2009 fiscal year. The states with the largest cuts in absolute terms we... |
 | UT San Antonio To Develop Bipolar Programs For Hispanics by Daniel Bader - 11-10-2011 The Department of Medicine at the University of Texas San Antonio has been granted $3.7 million to develop programs that specifically target members of the Hispanic community with bipolar disorder. The goal is to develop treatment protocols that are... |
 | Calgary Mayor Accuses Tweeter of Being "Off His Meds" by Daniel Bader - 11-09-2011 Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi found himself in some hot water this weekend when he tweeted "I know I should not bother when you’re off your meds, but I love how freedom of speech is now an extreme lefty issue." in retort to blogger Werner Patel on th... |
 | Bipolar Americans Falling Through Insurance Gaps by Daniel Bader - 11-08-2011 The Republic had an interesting feature yesterday about the problem that Americans with pre-existing conditions, including bipolar disorder, have in getting private health insurance. A number of factors can easily come together for bipolar Americans... |
 | Indian Police Official Sent to Mental Institution For Alleging Corruption by Daniel Bader - 11-07-2011 A somewhat bizarre event happened in the Uttar Pradesh province India this past week. D.D. Mishra, the Deputy Inspector General of Fire Services charged that corruption was rampant in the fire services. In response, he was taken forcibly to a menta... |
 | Maclean's Magazine Covers Mental Illness on Campus by Daniel Bader - 11-04-2011 Maclean's Magazine is a weekly Canadian news magazine, and each year they publish a special issue ranking Canadian universities. It has come to be their best-selling issue, and comes with a number of articles that cover topics related to university ... |
 | "Veteran's Voices" Helps Mentally Ill Vets by Daniel Bader - 11-03-2011 Veteran's Voices provides an opportunity for veterans to express themselves creatively by publishing short stories and poems by veterans. Like the rest of the population, many veterans have mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder and post-traum... |
 | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Receives FDA Approval for Trial by Daniel Bader - 11-02-2011 Brainsway, Inc., has received what is called an "Investigational Device Exemption" from the FDA to begin a study to examine the clinical effectiveness of their deep transcranial stimulation therapy for the treatment of bipolar disorder. This approva... |
 | Strict Disability Definition Limits Claims by Daniel Bader - 11-01-2011 People with bipolar disorder are finding that, despite limitations on their ability to work, they are finding themselves unable to claim disability under current IRS rules. Current rules define someone who is disabled as being someone who is, "unabl... |
