Sunday, 31 August 2008
Guiding The Way: Dealing With Diabetes And Mental Health Problems
Up to 50% of people with diabetes ar thought to also have a mental illness such as depression or anxiousness.
The pamphlet, The SANE Guide to Good Mental Health for people affected by diabetes, explains the relationship betwixt diabetes and mental wellness and what people stern do to look after themselves. This represents an exciting new collaboration 'tween SANE and Diabetes Australia, and was developed with valuable input signal from the team at Diabetes Counselling Online.
Diabetes Australia National President, Dr Gary Deed, says 'The launch of this folder comes at a time when hoi polloi with diabetes are doubly as likely to receive depression or anxiety compared to people who do not possess diabetes.'
The pressure level of living with a chronic disease can impingement on mental health and a person's capacity to cope with daily life.
'It's important to bring the message to mass living with diabetes that depression is just wish any other illness, it can be treated,' Dr Deed said.
SANE Australia Executive Director Barbara Hocking says 'SANE has developed this series of Guides to Good Mental Health as we desire people with a continuing condition to know help is available for mental health problems and be more mindful of prevention, early intervention, treatments and support services.
'At the end of the day this is a win-win situation as we know that when depression and anxiety are treated, people are better able to manage their underlying chronic health condition,' Ms Hocking aforesaid.
With personal accounts and easy-to-understand explanations of how treatments for these conditions may help, the guide also provides tips for family and friends load-bearing people with diabetes and depression/anxiety.
Alli Milnes, 34, knows exactly how diabetes can impact on genial health. Since being diagnosed with character 1 diabetes as an eight-year-old, she has dealt with life style changes and challenges - including organism diagnosed with depression after the onslaught of anorexia as a teenager.
'It's often hard to help hoi polloi understand or so my diabetes, what it is and what I need to do to manage it. I'm selfsame cautious and unsure around who I tell about my depression, people's reactions can be frustrating and often uninformed,' Alli said.
'Education is the key piece of serving people realize about diabetes, which is why the guide is ideal; it covers a lot of areas and gives selective information that will help make people a lot more than aware around diabetes and mental health,' she said.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
Minority Patients Who Perceive Discrimination By Health Care Providers Less Likely To Seek Cancer Screenings, Study Finds
Members of minority groups who perceive racial discrimination from their health fear providers ar less likely to be screened for breast or colon cancers, according to a recent study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, Reuters Health reports. For the study, researchers from Stanford University surveyed 11,245 black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American adults between ages 40 and 75. About 9% of the women and 6% of the men wHO responded to the survey said they had experient some type of secernment from their health aid providers in the last five years.
According to the study, the women world Health Organization perceived some form of discrimination from their physicians were about one-third less likely to have undergone a colorectal cancer screening and about half as likely to have had a mammogram. Among manpower, those world Health Organization perceived discrimination were 70% less likely to take had a colorectal cancer screening. The researchers aforesaid there was no solve indication around what the physicians or other wellness care providers had done for the men and women to perceive discrimination.
In a argument released by the American Association for Cancer Research, lead researcher LaVera Crawley, an supporter professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, said, "The longer somebody delays (cancer the Crab) screening the worse the outcome," adding, "Perception of discrimination may be driving the differences we see in outcomes among minorities." She added, "Clinicians penury to be aware that they may be sending signals, even unintentionally, that lead minorities to think they ar being discriminated against" (Reuters Health, 8/14).
An abstract of the study is available on-line.
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Monday, 11 August 2008
Amy Winehouse - Winehouses Husband Hopes For Early Prison Release
AMY WINEHOUSE's husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL will be released from prison house in time to observe the New Year if he behaves himself, according to raw reports.
Fielder-Civil is currently portion a 27-month sentence in the British capital's Pentonville Prison after being convicted on charges of grievous bodily harm (GBH) and perverting the course of justice. The charges root from a 2006 assault on a London saloon landlord.
The 26-year-old, who matrimonial Winehouse last year (07), was arranged to attend to the remaining 18 months of his initial time when his pleas to Judge David Radford for time served were denied.
At the clock time Radford responded to the request: "No previous convictions, rather than exemplary good character - if what I read about him and the use of drugs is true," adding that Fielder-Civil had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and shameful" manner.
According to Britain's News of the World newsprint, Fielder-Civil will be released on 30 December (08) pending his behaviour.
His mother Georgette says, "We're hoping that his probation officer will send word him to stay with us. If he's joined with drugs on his weekend visit he will lose the right to come proscribed early. He will be released on December 30 if he's a ripe boy. I've told him to keep his foreland down."
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Shades Of Grey
Artist: Shades Of Grey
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
The Longest Day
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Shades of Grey is composed of 3 manpower wHO bring a