Latest Health Articles for Mental Health

• Study: Brain monitors no better than old method for keeping surgical patients from waking

  article 2008-03-13  |  Author: Linda A. Johnson
  Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They awake during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain.Some experts have said special brain-wave monitors were the best way to prevent anesthesia awareness. Now, in a big ......

• Psychiatrist says man convicted of killing 10-year-old had several sexual disorders

  article 2008-03-06  |  Author: Sean Murphy
  A man convicted of killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a cannibalistic fantasy "gave up on being normal" and was driven by deviant sexual disorders and a downward spiral of depression, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday.Dr. Martin Kafka, a clinical associate at Harvard Medical School, testified for the ......

• Alaska attorney says Lilly failed to adequately warn doctors, patients of Zyprexa side effects

  article 2008-03-06  |  Author: Dan Joling
  Eli Lilly and Co. failed to adequately warn doctors and patients of dangerous side effects associated with its drug Zyprexa, an attorney for Alaska said Wednesday in opening arguments in the state's lawsuit against the drug maker.Lilly did not adequately disclose that using the drug, prescribed to treat ...

• Colo. church shooter had ADHD and felt rejected but didn't discuss violence, parents say

  article 2008-02-28  |  Author: Eric Gorski
  A young man who killed four people at a church and a missionary training center had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and harbored bitterness for being an outcast, his parents said in their first extended comments.Matthew Murray however gave no indication he was about to explode in violence, they ......

• US church shooter had ADHD and felt rejected but didn't discuss violence, parents say

  article 2008-02-28  |  Author: Eric Gorski
  A young man who killed four people at a church and a missionary training center had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and harbored bitterness for being an outcast, his parents said in their first extended comments.Matthew Murray gave no indication he was about to explode in violence, though, they ......

• Mother accused of suffocating autistic girl, 3, was having psychotic episode, doctor says

  article 2008-01-15  |  Author: Staff
  A mother was severely depressed and experiencing a psychotic episode when she suffocated her autistic 3-year-old daughter with a garbage bag, a doctor testified Monday at the woman's murder trial.Karen McCarron was haunted by thoughts that she was responsible for Katherine "Katie" McCarron's autism, defense witness Dr. Joseph ......

• HEALTHBEAT: Snoring could mean sleep apnea; Medicare proposal might help catch more patients

  article 2008-01-07  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  Loud snoring doesn't just annoy your spouse. It could signal dangerous sleep apnea, yet millions go undiagnosed.A government move may help change that: Medicare is poised to allow at-home testing for sleep apnea — letting people snooze in their own beds instead of spending the night in a sleep laboratory.It's ......

• FDA approves generic versions of insomnia drug Ambien

  article 2007-04-23  |  Author: Staff
  The first generic versions of the insomnia. A patent held by Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis on the drug, also ......

• FDA warns of dangers of ordering drugs over the Internet

  article 2007-02-16  |  Author: Staff
  Consumers who thought they were purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet instead were shipped a powerful anti-psychotic, sending some unwitting victims to the emergency room, federal health officials warned Friday.The Food and Drug Administration said a number of consumers took the schizophrenia drug, haloperidol, ......

• Potential new way to help with insomnia

  article 2007-01-29  |  Author: Randolph E. Schmid
  Researchers studying a disease that causes people to suddenly drop off to sleep are trying to turn what they have learned into a new way to help insomniacs get some rest.They found that blocking brain receptors for orexin, a blood peptide, promoted sleep in rats, dogs and people, according to ......