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Northeastern University Professor Studies Limited Literacy And Mental Health Outcomes (Medical News Today) Alisa Lincoln, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern, recently completed one of the first studies of its kind on the role of literacy and mental health. While much attention has been focused on the role of literacy and health, little is known about the relationship between literacy and mental health. us.rd.yahoo.com
Elementary School Intervention Increases Mental, Sexual Health, Economic Status (Medical News Today) Fifteen years after they completed an intervention program designed to help their social development in elementary school, young adults reported better mental health, sexual health and higher educational and economic achievement than a control group of young adults who didn't receive the intervention, according to a new study. us.rd.yahoo.com
Elementary school intervention increases mental, sexual health, economic status (EurekAlert!) ( University of Washington ) Fifteen years after they completed an intervention program designed to help their social development in elementary school, young adults reported better mental health, sexual health and higher educational and economic achievement than a control group of young adults who didn't receive the intervention. us.rd.yahoo.com
InforSense Partners With the U.K.'s South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London to Combat ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London will use InforSense's translational research tools in ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Health Calendar (Winston-Salem Journal) MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CHRISTIAN SELF-HELP GROUP: Meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 4507 Thomasville Road. For more information, e-mail dmason1221@aol us.rd.yahoo.com
American Indian Health Care Advocates, Lawmakers Look To Next Administration For Passing Of Reauthorization Bill (Medical News Today) With Congress expected to adjourn for the year without passing the Health Care Improvement Act reauthorization bill (S 1200), Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and American Indian leaders are looking to the incoming Obama administration for support, the Fargo Forum reports. us.rd.yahoo.com
A compilation of Sun stories that offer health advice (The Naperville Sun) Consumers are more likely to check the labels on their food than the labels on their health advice. us.rd.yahoo.com
Childhood Social Program Leads To Better-Functioning Young Adults (Medical News Today) A social development intervention administered in elementary school appears to have positive effects on mental health, sexual health and educational and economic achievement assessed 15 years after the intervention ended, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. us.rd.yahoo.com
Health survey of elderly Europeans shows clear north-south differences (Eu Business) The EU-funded project SHARE ('Survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe') has shown, among other things, that women live longer than men, especially in southern European countries, and that men are not sick as often as women, especially in the North. The detailed results of the survey were presented last week in Brussels, and are freely available to the public. us.rd.yahoo.com
NAMI plans holiday party at 6 tonight (Palladium-Item) RICHMOND -- The National Alliance for Mental Illness East Central Indiana chapter will celebrate the organization's efforts during the past year with a Christmas party at 6 p.m. today in the Clinical Treatment Center building gymnasium at Richmond State Hospital. us.rd.yahoo.com
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