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Asda ditches 'mental patient' outfit
2013-09-26 01:10:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Asda apologises and withdraws a Halloween outfit it was selling online as a "mental patient fancy dress costume", following criticism.
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California death penalty and mental retardation: Condemned killer seeks reprieve
2013-09-09 11:16:19| Grocery - Topix.net
More than six years ago, it appeared that condemned Santa Clara County killer David Allen Raley had run out of legal options to avoid execution.
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India: How climate change worries have affected mental health of Sunderbans residents
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: A number of environmental threats including that of climate change and man-animal conflict are driving villagers in Sunderbans islands towards madness and even suicide. Putting stress on the mental health of the villagers, the ill-effects of abject poverty and deprivation in the remote islands of the UNESCO World Heritage site are compounded by acute struggle against ecological hazards, experts say. Psychiatrist Arabinda N Chowdhury, who worked with the Institute of Psychiatry in Kolkata, studied...
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Mental Health an Overlooked Casualty of Disaster
2013-08-15 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In Lower Manhattan, two hotlines, the Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) and Project Hope, which is part of the New York City-wide helpline Lifenet, and specifically for those affected by Sandy, are at the frontline of disaster counselling, listening to myriad concerns ranging from queries about post-storm open hours of drug rehabilitation programmes to anxious parents reluctantly sending their children back to school in the days after the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting last December.Part of...
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Mental illness linked to early death in people with epilepsy
2013-07-22 16:02:02| Biotech - Topix.net
The findings reveal a striking correlation between premature death and mental illness in these patients and people with epilepsy were four times more likely to have received a psychiatric diagnosis in their lifetime compared with the general population.
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