Sunday, January 14, 2007

State news of national interest



Charleston Gazette - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A new state law requires health insurance companies to cover 30 inpatient and 20 outpatient days of treatment for mental illness. Companies must fully cover "biologically based mental illnesses'' including major depression
Source: www.wvgazette.com

Diseases of the Mind
MSNBC - symptoms of Lyme borreliosis, a tickborne nervous-system disease: headaches and aching joints. She didn’t get treatment When he began having bouts of major depression back in 1992, he had forgotten all about the tick bite he had gotten four years
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Doctor: Mom who killed kids was insane
Chicago Tribune - Matthew Markos, director of Cook County Forensic Clinical Services, said Tonya Vasilev had major depression with psychotic Last year Vasilev was found unfit to stand trial and ordered to undergo a year of inpatient treatment at Elgin Mental
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

A Look At Antidepressants
CBS News - CBS) Treatment with antidepressants increases the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in patients up to age 24 from the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 18.8 million Americans over the age of 18 suffer from major depression
Source: www.cbsnews.com


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