Christchurch :: New Zealand
| about 13 hours ago
President Dr Margaret Sparrow said that a recent review of world literature on the subject found that there is no credible evidence that a single abortion is a threat to a women’s mental health but the evidence regarding the relative mental health risks...
Tags: abortion, health, research, mental disorder, health risks, study, women, psychiatry, risks, Mental Health
Mumbai :: India
| 3 days ago
An 11 year-old girl in Mumbai, India was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain and doctors were forced to operate her. What they found inside her stomach was a foot long giant hair-ball. The mass of hair known as Trichobozear is a potentially fatal...
Tags: trichotillomania, impulse control disorder, hair eating, trich, mental illness, psychiatry, psychology
Hetauda :: Nepal
| about 1 month ago
I am neither a financial expert nor a profound economist. But there is one thing that I have realized in the recent past that I would like to share with you. Through various incidents I have arrived at this realization. Some of those incidents...
Tags: essence of life, meditation, love, friendship, relationship, who am i, spirituality, spiritualism, happiness, success, motivation, osho, religion, online counselling, psychiatry, psychology, american financial crisis, american election, world economy crisis
Trinidad :: Bolivia
| about 1 month ago
A leading psychiatrist has criticised proposals by the Ministry of Health to incarcerate patients in their community, instead of a health institution. Dr Hari Maharajh, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, told the Express...
Tags: dengue, psychiatry
London :: United Kingdom
| 5 months ago
New findings suggest that social networking sites, such as Facebook and Myspace, may challenge the mental health of the generation that has come to depend on them. It is hypothesized that the flexibility of their identities on such sites belittles the...
Tags: Facebook, Teenagers, Psychiatry
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA
| 5 months ago
Life might just be starting to get rosier for pop star Britney Spears. The result of the latest hearing in her custody duel with ex-husband Kevin Federline seems to be the right to overnight visits with sons, two year old Sean Preston and one year old...
Tags: Britney Spears, custody, Kevin Federline, psychiatry, drug abuse