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Archive for July, 2004

98,000 Patient Deaths per Year May Have Been Low

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report that described how 98,000 Americans were dying every year in hospitals due to preventable medical errors. This report at HealthGrades follows up on that ...

Negative self-image of adolescents fosters increasingly damaging behaviors

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Negative self-image of adolescents fosters increasingly damaging behaviors Adolescents who think little of themselves tend to shy away from interactions with peers. This uncertainty and withdrawal then draws negative feedback from other students, prompting even ...

Who said ancient cultures didn’t know how to have fun?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Ancient brewery discovered on mountaintop in Peru Archaeologists working in southern Peru found an ancient brewery more than 1,000 years old. Remains of the brewing facility were uncovered on Cerro Ba�l, a mountaintop city over ...

Drug Maker Acknowledges Misleading Claims

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
The maker of a popular medicine for schizophrenia has notified doctors that it minimized potentially fatal safety risks and made misleading claims about the drug in promotional materials. Janssen Pharmaceutic Products sent a two-page letter ...

Study Aims to Sort Out Alcohol Usage

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Alcohol is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the medical world: Drinking too much causes serious problems, while drinking a little may help many people's health. How many drinks provide just the benefits and not ...

Bloggers bring new convention perspective

Sunday, July 25th, 2004
Somewhere among the more than 15,000 newspaper, magazine, television and radio journalists roaming the Democratic National Convention this week in Boston will be more than 30 people without a notebook, an editor or a deadline. For ...

‘Stressed’ worker loses damages claim

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
The Bargaining Council for the Cleaning Contract Industry has ruled against a Durban cleaner who claimed damages from her employer after she was stripped of her underwear by a security guard and forced to go ...

Suicide: Mental health advocates work to break stigma of suicide

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
It's not something that's easy to talk about. Suicide. It can be a source of shame for loved ones and family members, who speak of it in hushed tones and whispers — if at all. ...

Loved ones should trust instincts to prevent suicides

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
The thoughts of family members and colleagues left behind fill with "what ifs." Over and over in their minds, they replay the last hours, days or months before the suicide. What obvious signs or ...

Take off and turn it off

Friday, July 16th, 2004
Ask travel agent Kathy Kurtzman whether a lot of people are stressed and overdue for vacations by the time they book their holidays and she replies emphatically, "Oh, gawd, yeah — including me."

Schools Shouldn’t Play Doctor

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004
The Department of Health and Human Services will announce this fall a plan to improve access to mental health services. The initiative follows the release last year of a report commissioned by President George W. ...

It’s official: dope makes you potty

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
An authoritative medical study has given further backing to claims that smoking cannabis can trigger mental illness. Scientists found the drug caused schizophrenia-like symptoms including paranoia and memory problems.

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