Out of options, a mother turns to commitment to get her son the mental health care he needs

SC Mental Health to use land sale cash for repairs

Muqeet and the hospital social worker tried to get Rob to stay at Rogers voluntarily, but Rob refused to agree to their one condition: he had to take the medication. So, the social worker called Steve Seidl, Rob’s case manager, and told him to come to the hospital to pick up Rob. “Now what?” Debbie asked Seidl. Seidl shrugged. He said he was downtown and didn’t feel well. You were right, he told her.
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The Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 Introduced in the Rajya Sabha; Decriminalises Suicide

The agency has lost $87 million in funding since 2008. “I would hate for all that money to go to capital needs when there is such a need for more psychiatrists, more psychiatric nurses. I would rather see it go to services than bricks and mortar,” said Bill Lindsey , director of the state chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness . The agency is selling 165 acres to Greenville developer Bob Hughes .
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The bill seeks to regulate private as well as public mental healthcare sectors as well as establish a mental health system integrated into various levels of general healthcare. The bill provides for Advance Directive to be furnished in writing by the person, without the basis of mental illness. The bill also provides for registration of the Mental Board to be set up by the government at both central and state levels. The bill provides for Central Mental Health Authority and State Mental Health Authority together with the Mental Health Review Commission for regulating the sector and registering the institutions. It is important to note that the Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 completed the gap in mental health law in India after it ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which requires it to harmonise the laws with the ones present across the world. This convention was signed on 1 October 2007 and came into force on 3 May 2008.
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Strange sleep disorder makes people see ‘demons’

Sleep Disorders

Myths and legends about sleep paralysis persist all over the globe, from the incubus and succubus (male and female demons, respectively) of European tales to a pink dolphin-turned-nighttime seducer in Brazil. Some of the stories MacKinnon uncovered reveal why these myths are so chilling. Sleep stories One man told her about his frequent sleep paralysis episodes, during which he’d experience extremely realistic hallucinations of a young child, skipping around the bed and singing nursery rhymes. Sometimes, the child would sit on his pillow and talk to him. One night, the tot asked the man a personal question. When he refused to answer, the child transformed into a “horrendous demon ,” MacKinnon said. For another man, who had the sleep disorder narcolepsy (which can make sleep paralysis more common), his dream world clashed with the real world in a horrifying way.
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Bruxism simply refers to teeth grinding and its often done in conjunction with the clenching of the jaw. Though most people with this sleep disorder are unaware of it, bruxism can certainly be the cause of sleeplessness in others (your sleeping partner may never forgive you for that nails-on-chalkboard sound of teeth grinding). And those who sleep alone only become aware of their condition when complications appear: worn teeth, severe headaches, jaw pain, chronic facial pain, and so on. What causes it? The cause of sleep bruxism is not well understood and can vary significantly from person to person. Daily stress and anxiety, suppressed anger and hyperactive personality types all may be a cause.
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ACLU: Denying Chelsea Manning Hormone Therapy May Violate Constitutional Rights

Bradley Manning arrives at the courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., for his court martial. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) Bradley Manning FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a hearing in his court martial.
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ACLU: Denying Hormone Therapy To Manning Raises ‘Constitutional Concerns’

Preventive Services Task Force. The article should have noted that the recommendation is a draft that is open to public comment until June 26. Also, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo was identified as the chairwoman of the task force and lead author of the Annals report; she is a member of the task force who served as topic lead for the group that examined the evidence, but the Annals report was written by others. Finally, the article said the task force had recommended “in recent months” against routine mammograms for women in their 40s; that controversial recommendation was made in November 2009. The latest recommendation, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, comes from an organization accustomed to controversy. In recent months, the task force has recommended against routine breast cancer screenings for most women younger than 50.
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Study sounds a warning on hormone use

Army to deny hormone therapy to Chelsea Manning, the convicted private formerly known as Bradley, “raises serious constitutional concerns” and may be in violation of the Eigth Amendment. The ACLU posted its response to the Army on its website: In response to Chelsea Manning’s disclosure that she is female, has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and will be seeking hormone therapy as a part of her transition during her incarceration, public statements by military officials that the Army does not provide hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria raise serious constitutional concerns. Gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition in which a person’s gender identity does not correspond to his or her assigned sex at birth, and hormone therapy is part of the accepted standards of care for this condition. Without the necessary treatment, gender dysphoria can cause severe psychological distress, including anxiety and suicide. When the government holds individuals in its custody, it must provide them with medically necessary care. The official policy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and most state agencies is to provide medically necessary care for the treatment of gender dysphoria, and courts have consistently found that denying such care to prisoners based on blanket exclusions violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
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Some fear health law could give members of Congress and their staffers abortion coverage

The Coming Liberation: Health Care For All Without Obamacare

Under the health-care law, insurance plans in the new markets may cover abortion unless a state passes a law prohibiting them from doing so. Plans offering coverage of abortion, however, may not use federal funds to pay for it. Federal tax credits to help the uninsured afford coverage must be kept apart from premiums collected for abortion coverage. Abortion opponents say the regulation would circumvent a long-standing law that bars the use of taxpayer funds for administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the federal employees health benefits program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. Unlike many private corporate plans, federal-employee plans cover abortion only in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Under this scheme, (the government) will be paying the administrative costs, said Rep. Christopher H.
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BREE, Associated Press By ALLEN G. BREED, AP National Writer Updated 5:27pm, Friday, August 16, 2013 View: Larger | Hide FILE – In a Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a capped groundwater monitoring well stands on the former site of the Hadnot Point fuel farm at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Gasoline from leaking underground tanks on the Marine Corps base contributed to what is considered one of the worst cases of drinking water contamination in U.S.
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Flap continues over Lejeune health assessment

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Obamacare was pushed through on the promise of universal health coverage for everyone. But the CBO now scores Obamacare as leaving 30 million uninsured even 10 years after implementation! In fact, Obamacare will increase the uninsured rather than reduce them. Former CBO Chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin published a study in 2011 arguing that more than 40 million workers will lose their employer provided health insurance under the incentives of Obamacare. That is because employers can save enormous sums dropping the highly expensive, Obamacare mandated, employer health insurance, leaving their workers to gain the taxpayer subsidies on the Exchanges, and giving them a raise out of the savings to boot. Millions of others are already suffering pay cuts, as their employers are cutting them back to part time, below 30 hours a week, to evade the Obamacare employer mandate altogether. Labor markets will increasingly organize as well around hiring lower skilled, lower income workers as independent contractors with no benefits, as the employer mandate does not apply to such non-employees. Workers will similarly evade the individual mandate as well to avoid Obamacares costly requirements, especially since under Obamacares guaranteed issue and community rating regulations, they can wait until they get sick to buy health insurance at the same standard rates as everyone else. Why would younger and healthier workers shell out anything for health insurance, especially in this difficult economy, where middle class incomes have been falling for Obamas entire Presidency, when they can get it later at no extra charge if they get sick? After the insurance pays for them to get well, then they can drop it again. A recently released study by the National Center for Public Policy Research found that nearly 4 million single childless people 18 to 34 would save $500 if they declined required Obamcare insurance next year, even counting the Obamacare subsidies for their insurance, and even if they paid the mandate penalty for failing to insure. More than 3 million would save $1,000 or more.
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McConnell, Ky. health care workers decry Obamacare

health care workers decry Obamacare FLORENCE, Ky. — Sen. Mitch McConnell told a group of health care workers Monday that he would defund the Affordable Care Act, if it weren’t for a Democratic Senate and president. Post to Facebook McConnell, Ky.
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Health Exchange Shoppers Can Expect $2,700 in Tax Credits

I feel confident that I leave Barclays financially robust and well placed to continue to serve its customers, clients, shareholders and other stakeholders. Lucas was among four past and present employees to be probed by regulators over whether Barclays adequately disclosed fees paid to the Qatar Investment Authority as part of a 7 billion-pound fundraising during the financial crisis, a move that helped the lender avoid taking government money. Barclays said last month that its contesting the probes findings. Barclayss first-half profit was reduced by 640 million pounds of restructuring costs linked to Jenkinss overhaul of the lender to make it more profitable. The CEO is seeking to cut 1.7 billion pounds in annual expenses by 2015, eliminating 3,700 jobs and reduce costs to about 55 percent of income from 71 percent in the first quarter of 2013. To contact the reporters on this story: Zeke Faux in New York at zfaux@bloomberg.net ; Ambereen Choudhury in London at achoudhury@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Christine Harper at charper@bloomberg.net ; Edward Evans at eevans3@bloomberg.net Barclays CFO Chris Lucas Barclays Plc via Bloomberg Chris Lucas, chief financial officer Barclays Plc, is seen in this undated handout photograph. Lucas, 52, will step down for health reasons from the board and as group finance director on Aug. 16, the London-based company said in a statement today.
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Barclays Finance Chief Lucas Resigns Earlier Due to Healt

(Evan Vucci/Associated Press) Also By Chad Terhune August 13, 2013, 11:50 a.m. In another delay for the federal healthcare law, some employers will have until 2015 to comply with new limits on out-of-pocket medical spending for consumers. Federal regulators notified group health plans earlier this year that some would have an extra year to meet the new rules instead of January 2014 as originally proposed. Last month, the Obama administration delayed another key piece of the Affordable Care Act by postponing until 2015 the requirement that large employers must offer employees health insurance. The health law generally caps annual out-of-pocket medical costs at $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family, starting in January. Those limits will still apply next year to individual policies sold in new government-run exchanges, such as Covered California.
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Federal officials delay another health-law provision for employers

Those tax credits will average $5,548 per family for that pool of people. When all consumers are taken into account, whether eligible for credits or not, the average subsidy works out to $2,672 each, according to the study. Healthy Youth U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius criticized Republican state leaders warning of big premium increases due to the Affordable Care Act, saying last week that their numbers are just factually incorrect. Republican officials in Georgia, Indiana and Ohio have predicted premium increases of as much as 200 percent. Leaders in Democratic-led states including New York and California have said smaller increases or savings will occur when subsidies accompanying the law are included. The Obama administration has said it wants to see about 7 million people enroll in plans through the exchanges next year, including at least 2.7 million who are young and healthy. Thats necessary to balance the cost of covering sick people.
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Weight Watchers trying to cash in on desire for healthy workers

But it certainly has shed some revenue. Last week, it reported second-quarter revenue down 4 percent to $465.1 million. They closed on Thursday at $37.57, almost 21 percent lower than a month ago. But Weight Watchers’ partnership with companies eager to slim down their employees was a bright spot. Experts say employee weight-loss programs are good for worker productivity and employee retention. Weight Watchers’ workforce division might be a small piece of the diet pie for now, but revenue for its partnership with large employers grew about 30 percent this quarter.
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In Short Term, Weight-Loss Surgery Doesn’t Raise Fracture Risk

A normal BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9. When Walls underwent the five-hour operation in September 2008, he weighed 844 pounds. Weight loss after gastric bypass surgery varies widely depending on how seriously the patient follows a proper diet and exercise, Nagalla said. Most patients lose about 40 pounds by the second month after surgery and 100 by the sixth month. By Walls first month checkup, he had lost 100 pounds. However, that weight didnt come off easily, Walls said.
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Diet Doc Medical Weight Loss Plans Reveals New Smoothie Diet Supplements that Burn Body Fat and Eliminate Cravings for Processed Carbohydrates

These smoothie diet supplements actually reduce the patients powerful cravings for processed carbohydrates by blocking the absorption of carbohydrates into the body. And, in addition to high amounts of heart healthy, soluble fiber, these smoothie diet supplements promote an increased metabolism to burn more body fat through thermogenesis. While the smoothie diet supplements are extremely popular among Diet Doc clients, another in demand product is the high protein, low carbohydrate weight control bar. Using these bars as part of weight loss diets helps patients to quickly lose weight without any of the negative side effects commonly associated with dieting.
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Midland chef bounces back after weight loss

TUESDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) — Obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery, such as gastric bypass or gastric band , are not at greater risk for broken bones in the first few years after their operation, according to a new study. Three to five years after this type of surgery, however, these patients may face an increased risk of fractures. “It has been recognized that surgical treatment is the most effective route to weight loss for many with morbid obesity ,” Dr.
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