‘Self-Embedding’ Takes Teen Self-Injury to the Extreme

TUESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) — The 16-year-old went to the emergency room because of a painful infection in her arm. When doctors used ultrasound on the area, they were shocked to see about 20 foreign objects under her skin, including a paper clip, a screw from a pair of eyeglasses and multiple pieces of pencil lead.

Free clinic a big part of Lincoln’s safety net

Church-based Clinic with a Heart opened seven years ago to help the sick who had nowhere to turn. The clinic now boasts 600 annual volunteers and provides $1 million in free care per year.

NIH Invests $161M in 14 New Pharmacogenomics Research Network Projects

The National Institutes of Health this week said it would grant $161.3 million over the next five years to 14 new projects under the Pharmacogenomics Research Network.

UC San Diego to Lead New Pharmacogenomics Project

An international team, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the pharmacogenomics of a key mood-stabilizing drug used to treat bipolar disorder.

Schizophrenia Quiz

Do you know the comorbidity rates for OCD in the schizophrenia population? Does early onset schizophrenia have any effect on disease severity? These questions and more from this week’s quiz.

Bipolar disorder ‘not linked to violent behaviour’

London, Sep 7 : Researchers have suggested that people with a severe mental illness are not likely to be violent-unless they abuse drugs or alcohol.

Family-to family ed program for Fall

Serious brain disorders, sometimes called mental illnesses, occur worldwide. Statistics show forms of schizophrenia affect 1 in 100, bipolar disorder 1 in 50 while cases of major depression and severe anxiety disorders — of which obsessive compulsive disorder is one – are even more prevalent.

Three tales of going from homeless to hopeful

Carmen Echevrria chuckled at how annoyed she once was about seeking Edward Short’s permission to have an overnight guest in her apartment. It’s one of the rules in the Permanent Supportive Housing Program for disabled, chronically homeless persons.

Ethics and Disclosure: How Health Nonprofits Handle Contributions From Medical Companies

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, asked 33 nonprofit groups that focus on health and medical care to tell him how much money they received from pharmaceutical, medical-device, and insurance companies and their foundations from 2006 to 2009, and how they disclose such information to the public.

Embedding may be teens’ unkindest cut of all

TORONTO – By any objective measure, the girl’s upper arm was a mess. A painful, pus-filled swelling about the dimension of a paperback novel had brought the 16-year-old to hospital desperate for help.

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