Adolescents Let Physical Activity Slide After Seventh Grade
— By the time they reach ninth grade, most adolescents abandon the physical activities they enjoyed in seventh grade; and the more vigorous the activity, the more likely they are to drop it.
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Low-Income Minorities Miss More Glucose Checks —Income appears to play a crucial role in how often diabetes patients on insulin check their daily blood glucose levels, and low-income minorities check less often than others, a new research study finds... MORE
Deinstitutionalization Leads to Rise in Suicide Among Mentally Ill
— Reducing the number of beds available in public psychiatric hospitals is associated with increased suicide rates — and community-based mental health care is often not funded at a level sufficient to help. A new study finds that for every bed lost for 100,000 people in the population, 45 additional suicides would occur per year... MORE
Managing Medical and Mental Illness
In her 1984 boot camp graduation photo, Adrienne Fitts is smiling. Her hair is neatly groomed, her Navy cap and dress whites are spotless and she is regulation fit and trim.
Flash forward to 2001. Fitts, now a retired Gulf War veteran, struggles with a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder. She is 90 pounds heavier and has developed type 2 diabetes. She is certain her regimen of antipsychotic drugs (“there are so many”) caused the diabetes as well as high blood pressure.
In April 2006, Adrienne Fitts suffers a stroke. READ MORE
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