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The Education Crisis Among Boys: All Hype? |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Assessment & Evaluation
Newsweek created conversation in the education community earlier this year with a cover story on the supposedly sorry state of school performance among American boys. The article m... more
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Celebs Fight Mental Illness |
| Friday, June 23, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Two high-profile recording artists, Eminem and American Idol-er Katherine McPhee, recently announced that they have been struggling with depression and bulimia respectively.Eminem has not appeared in ... more
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Publisher's Suicide Draws Attention to Heart Disease, Depression Link |
| Thursday, June 22, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
The discovery this week of the body of noted publisher and diplomat Philip Merrill has once again drawn attention to the link between depression and heart disease. After his disappearance many detail... more
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Companies Get Creative to Cut Healthcare Premiums |
| Thursday, June 22, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
Ballooning healthcare costs often show up in one place before all others: businesses' bottom lines. It makes sense that the larger companies, those with the most employees to insure, can see massive ... more
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High School Encourages Power Napping to Increase Productivity |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Adolesence
In a trend which may eventually migrate to the United States, a school district in southern Japan adopted a policy encouraging students to take brief naps, usually following their lunch period. ... more
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Targeted Interventions Provide More Effective Depression Treatment |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have performed a meta analysis on 20 years worth of study on interventions for depression and depressive symptoms. They found that of the three different types ... more
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More Problems Than Solutions for Depression Left in Katrina's Wake |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
Depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and a general feeling of hopelessness again take centerstage in a New York Times article about the mental health and overall health care situation i... more
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Stress, Anxiety Over U.S. Engagements Continue to Create Problems |
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 By Blog Master |
Category: Trauma/PTSD
Two stories in the press today highlight the continued problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs. The first story, from the Washington Post, discusses how images and reports from Iraq and Af... more
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Stress, Anxiety Over U.S. Engagements Continue to Create Problems |
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Two stories in the press today highlight the continued problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs. The first story, from the Washington Post, discusses how images and reports from Iraq and Af... more
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Grand Rounds at Dr. Deborah Serani! |
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Our Psychology
This week's edition of Grand Rounds is up and ready for your edification. This week our host is none other than psychology blogger extraordinaire Dr. Deborah Serani. She put many psych bloggers righ... more
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On Twentieth Anniversary, Bias' Death Continues to Loom Large |
| Monday, June 19, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
Last night the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks played into an overtime period in what was one of the most thrilling games of this year's NBA playoffs. Yet this morning, one of the country's best spor... more
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GlaxoSmithKline Releases New Warning for Those Taking Lamictal |
| Monday, June 19, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Medication Info
GlaxoSmithKline recently released new information regarding their drug Lamictal. Commonly used to treat bipolar disorder as well as help control seizures for those with epilepsy, Lamictal has been fo... more
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The Only Good Tobacco is No Tobacco at All |
| Monday, June 19, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The cover story of yesterday's New York Times Magazine asked: If It's Good for Philip Morris, Can It Also Be Good for Public Health? In the piece, writer Joe Nocera introduces us to Steve Parrish, an... more
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Antidepressants May Help the Body Fight HIV |
| Friday, June 16, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Medication Info
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors may enhance the immune system's active defenses against HIV infection. A preliminary study of 40 womenfound that treating HIV-positive blood samples with the... more
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Faced with Mounting Obesity, Some Cities Get Creative |
| Friday, June 16, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
In 2000 Men's Fitness magazine named Philadelphia the fattest city in the country. Mayor John Street, newly elected, found himself facing media criticism for which he hadn't been prepared. But as C... more
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Advocacy Group's Report Attempts to Turn Meth Spotlight on Press |
| Thursday, June 15, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
The line has been something of a media trope in recent years: Methamphetamine is spreading across the country like a brush fire. A new study, released yesterday by the George Soros funded The Senten... more
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Antidepressants Do Not Significantly Benefit Anorexics |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
According to official estimates, more than three million Americans suffer from anorexia nervosa, a clinical obsession with weight loss which manifests itself through such behaviors as habitual binge... more
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Hurricane Season Returns, Old Scars Remain |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Stress
Alberto has proven to be a storm of little consequence. Some nasty wind and rain for sure, but not the cataclysm for which last season has prepared us. Yet, as a story in today's Washington Post rem... more
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For Those Looking for Drinking Encouragement, New Beer Research Proves Fruitless |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Addiction
One of man's favorite vices factored into two recent studies that have been making some headlines. In the first, researchers at Oregon State University have found that an ingredient in beer seems to ... more
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YRBS Follow-Up Interview |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Parenting
Last week we covered the Center for Disease Control's Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, which were released recently. Newsweek ran a web exclusive interview with Howell Wechsler, director of the CD... more
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Depression, Diabetes and the Healthcare Crunch |
| Monday, June 12, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Diet , Aging and Eating Disorders
The New York Times Health section, over the last couple of days, has been focusing on diabetes. In their series entitled Bad Blood the writers at the Times have examined the many wide-ranging issues ... more
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MySpacers Beware: Potential Employers May Review Your Profile |
| Monday, June 12, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: College Life
A Sunday New York Times article which will undoubtedly scare more than a few recent graduates into revising their online profiles reports on companies who Google the names of job... more
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Footballer Faces Bipolar Disorder in Battle Back to Field |
| Monday, June 12, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Bipolar Disorder
At the age of 34, Alonzo Spellman is getting one final chance to play the game that he loves. In 1992 Spellman entered the NFL as the first round draft pick of the Chicago Bears. In 1998, at the age... more
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Alternative School Offers Free-Form Education |
| Friday, June 09, 2006 By Blog Meister |
Category: Classroom Issues
Today the United States spends more money on education than at any previous point in our history, yet our literacy rates and standardized test scores continue to sink considerably lower than tho... more
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New CDC Survey Reveals Areas of Concern |
| Friday, June 09, 2006 By BlogMeister |
Category: Depression
The Center for Disease Control released the results from their Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) yesterday, and while many of the results show improvement over past years, others have researchers scra... more
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