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Health visitors can halt depression - The Press Association

2010-08-17
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)Health visitors can halt depressionThe Press AssociationHealth visitors were unable to take time off to undergo the extra training in assessment of depression and psychological support approaches. ...Health visitors 'can stop post-natal depression'BBC NewsPostnatal Depression Can Be Prevented, Study ShowsLiveScience.comHealth Visitors Can Prevent Postnatal Depression Says Pioneering New StudyMedical News Today (press release)all 44 news articles »

A study of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-9 in primary care elderly - 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

2010-09-01
A study of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-9 in primary care elderly7thSpace Interactive (press release)The diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for assessment of depression in elderly persons in primary care settings in the United ...

Marijuana Use Facts: Education into Action - Patch

2010-08-31
Marijuana Use Facts: Education into ActionPatchAfter an experienced clinical assessment, parents are equipped to make an informed decision regarding their teen's treatment plan and how to incorporate ...

Bloated public sector a luxury we can no longer afford - Irish Independent

2010-08-28
Bloated public sector a luxury we can no longer affordIrish IndependentThose cuts, though harsh, still skim the surface of McCarthy's more clinical assessment of what could be achieved. Lenihan must now find that €2bn in ...and more »

EEG Testing May Predict Clozapine Response in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia - Medscape

2010-08-18
EEG Testing May Predict Clozapine Response in Treatment-Resistant SchizophreniaMedscape... and as treatment-response indicators, along with other scales, such as the Quantitative Clinical Assessment, after at least 1 year of patient follow-up. ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment

2010-08-28
It . . . familiarizes the student with the entire enterprise of clinical assessment and provides enough of a how-to guide for the student to carry out an assessment practicum.” –Contemporary Psychology ...

Clinical Assessment: Part II Returning to work

2010-07-25
Often, in the case of depression, clients are unglued by their own state of lethargy and hopelessness, a reaction that serves to perpetuate their distress by diminishing their confidence. In the case of stress, often clients have ...

Measure Anxiety

2010-08-23
Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety (AABT Clinical Assessment) (ABCT Clinical Assessment Series) $56.95 Despite the high prevalence (as many as one in four) and severe impairment often associated with anxiety ...

Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice

2010-07-20
Where to buy Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice books online? Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice. Product Description This revolutionary, user-friendly textbook not only guides social ...

One Health Blog - Q&A About Health! » Women and Depression

2010-09-05
Major Depression. This is also known as clinical depression. People with this type of depression experience the symptoms for at least 2 weeks or for several months. The episodes of the illness can occur once, twice, or even several times in a ... Psychotherapy. This involves counseling and cognitive therapies for the depressed person. This will help them develop positive goals in life and a more positive self-assessment. This is very helpful in treating depression. ...

MSD Receives European Approval Of Its Atypical Antipsychotic Medication SYCREST(R) For The Treatment Of Manic Episodes ...

2010-09-05
MSD (MSD is a tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., with headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A). announced today that the European Commission has approved the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for SYCREST® (asenapine) sublingual tablets for the treatment of moderate to severe manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adults. Today's decision was based on recommendations ...

Greater Risk for Self-Harm in Young Black Women

2010-09-03
Findings from a recent study suggest that programs and services that interface with people who self-harm should become more “culturally sensitive,” said researchers from the universities of Manchester and Oxford. Out of nearly 15,000 people studied in the emergency departments of three cities, the study found that young, black women are highly more likely to self-harm [...]

Child’s Journey Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs

2010-09-01
Toddlers and even younger children are increasingly being prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs despite the lack of studies on how such drugs affect a child’s development.

Local doctors among dozens disciplined in Texas

2010-09-02
On August 27, 2010, the Board entered a Default Order against Rueben Isern, M.D., which revoked his medical license.

JRRD Releases Volume 47, Issue 6

2010-09-02
This multi-topic issue includes eight articles on hearing loss, mild traumatic brain injury, stroke, Parkinson disease, and more.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2008-09-15
List Price: $14.95Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name(read more)
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2010-05-24
List Price: $27.95Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil (read more)
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The Girl Who Played with Fire

2009-07-27
List Price: $15.95Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-swea(read more)
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Freedom: A Novel

2010-08-30
List Price: $27.99Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Correct(read more)
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The Grand Design

2010-09-06
List Price: $28.00Price: $15.12You Save: $12.88 (46%)1 used & new from $15.12Stephen Hawking on The Grand Design How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to try to explain where the universe came from, and where it is going. But that book left some important questions unanswered. Why is there a universe--why is(read more)
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Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (Rocky / Rocky II / Rocky III / Rocky IV / Rocky V / Rocky Balboa) [Blu-ray]

2009-11-02
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The Dark Knight (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

2008-12-08
List Price: $24.98Price: $8.99You Save: $15.99 (64%)61 used & new from $8.99The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great--in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision--is that it bypasses the normal fantasy element of the superhero genre and makes it all terrifyingly real. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is Gotham(read more)
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Batman Begins [Blu-ray]

2008-07-07
List Price: $28.99Price: $8.99You Save: $20.00 (69%)35 used & new from $8.99Batman Begins discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman & Robin. As the title implies, Batman Begins tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instruc(read more)
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Dexter: The Fourth Season

2010-08-16
List Price: $49.99Price: $24.99You Save: $25.00 (50%)23 used & new from $24.00Unfolding with tragic inevitability, Dexter's fourth season is a taut game of cat and mouse between Dexter (Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall) and Arthur Mitchell, "a very special kind of monster," unnervingly portrayed by John Lithgow in his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning performance. Whoever guest stars in seasons to come has a very hard act to follow. (Never mind all the blood, Mitchell's greeting, "Hello, Dexter Morgan," from the episode of the same name, will disturb your sleep.) But let's(read more)
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Iron Man 2 (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

2010-09-27
List Price: $39.99Price: $24.99You Save: $15.00 (38%)1 used & new from $24.99After the high-flying adventures of the first Iron Man picture, the billionaire arms manufacturer and irrepressible bon vivant Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) finds himself nursing a hangover. But not like any hangover he's had before: this one is toxic, a potentially deadly condition resulting from heavy metals (or something) bleeding out of the hardware he's installed in the middle of his chest. This is the problem Stark needs to solve in Iron Man 2, not to mention the threat from(read more)