Nov
20
2008
Commenting on the Annual Health check, Lisa Rodrigues, Chair of the Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation, and Chief Executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said:
"This is the second year running that NHS mental health trusts have been rated as one of the best performing parts of the NHS, the strong performance in the areas of Continue Reading »
Nov
20
2008
The American Red Cross today announced a new course, Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available. The course, offered free of charge, is open to military family members of active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, as well as veterans and their families. Presently, the course is offered in sixteen states (Ala., Ark., Calif., Colo., Fla., Hawaii, Ind., Minn., Neb., Continue Reading »
Nov
20
2008
Two new national health studies show that more adults in the US are living with hypertension than ever before; while this is bad news in that the
proportion of the population with high blood pressure has gone up, it is also good news in that more people are living with rather than dying from high blood
pressure. The investigators also concluded that obesity is the main reason so Continue Reading »
Nov
20
2008
Buy cipro pills This week, as the world’s attention turns to issues of good mental health for Friday’s World Mental Health Day, BBC Learning’s own mental health and wellbeing campaign - BBC Headroom - celebrates with the transmission of Alastair Campbell’s moving film, Cracking Up, some new faces at bbc.co.uk/headroom and a dedicated Continue Reading »
Nov
20
2008
A new study () published in Bioscience Hypotheses (), a recently launched Elsevier journal, proposes that some people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease experience a reduction in their high blood pressure because of cognitive decline.
Publications relating to dementia and blood pressure have been reviewed by the paper’s Continue Reading »