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Maryland hospitals creating live registry of psychiatric patients
A consortium of medical professionals from hospitals across Maryland is in the process of developing a new, live, statewide registry of psychiatric patients.
Their aim is to help deal with widespread overcrowding in their general psychiatric units and...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Behavioral Conditions, Howard County, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization
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Advocates, union call for changes at mental hospital
Mental health advocates and labor union officials are calling for increased staffing and policy changes at the state's maximum security mental hospital — including a reassessment of how patients are paired as roommates — after one patient...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Judges, Employees, Trials
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Stress may cause brain to shrink
If you're stressed out from a divorce, a hard day at work or a fight with your girlfriend it might be causing your brain to shrink. A study by Yale University researchers found that stressful life events can reduce gray matter in regions of the brain...Tags: Brain, Human Body, High Blood Pressure, Stress, Behavioral Conditions
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Trouble at Perkins
It may be some time before we know the exact circumstances surrounding the killing last week of a patient at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup. What we do know is that this was the second such tragedy to occur there in little over a year, and...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Ken Kesey, Judges, Mental Illness
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Man accused in killing at Perkins found competent for trial
A man accused of beating one of his roommates to death at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center last fall was found mentally competent Thursday to stand trial in Howard County Circuit Court. Vitali Davydov, 24, who is charged with first-degree murder in...Tags: Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals, Sex Crimes, Howard County, Trials
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Denying same-sex marriage defends children's rights
Opposition to extending civil marriage to same-sex couples isn't theocracy as Sen. Allan Kittleman has suggested. It's not bigotry, narrow-mindedness, hatred or "homophobia." It's common sense! And it's a matter of children's rights. Each of us has a...Tags: Social Sciences, Same-Sex Marriage, Sex, Minority Groups, Human Rights
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Gay marriage opponents need to get the facts about homosexuality
A state delegate from Virginia recently wrote on this page that "Sexual orientation is not limited to same- or complementary-sex attractions but includes attractions to children, prostitutes, multiple wives (polygamy), dead persons (necrophilia), animals,...Tags: Discrimination, Same-Sex Marriage, Employees, American Medical Association, Marriage
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Americans still scarred by Sept. 11 attacks
When an earthquake hit the Baltimore area recently, a familiar anxiety crept over Kimberly Anthony — not unlike her feelings after the terrorist attacks a decade ago.
Anthony, a Washington resident, still carries psychic scars from Sept. 11, 2001....Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Hospitals and Clinics, Psychology, Travel Alerts, Mental Health
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Dr. James Patrick Connaughton, psychiatrist
Dr. James Patrick Connaughton, a psychiatrist who was the founder and first director of what became the Johns Hopkins Children and Adolescent Mental Health Center, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at his Cloisters home in the Woodbrook neighborhood of...Tags: Constellation Energy Group, Dublin (Ireland), Colorado Springs, Hospitals and Clinics, Pediatrics
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Dr. Herbert Leonard Warres
Baltimore Sun reporterDr. Herbert Leonard Warres, a World War II combat surgeon who later became a radiologist and headed the outpatient radiology department at what is now the University of Maryland Medical Center, died Wednesday at North Oaks retirement community in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Psychiatrists, American Medical Association
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Glen Burnie man who shot at police found not responsible
A Glen Burnie man was on Wednesday found not criminally responsible for shooting at Anne Arundel County police because he was suffering from withdrawal from prescription drugs. Judge Paul A. Hackner said that state psychiatrists determined that on...Tags: Glen Burnie
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Fear factor: Why we're more scared of the unlikely
Julie McKinney almost didn’t talk to us for this story.
Not because she was worried about what she’d reveal or that she was nervous to see herself in print. But because of what she might see: a picture of a snake.
McKinney is scared of...Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Loyola University Maryland, Motorvehicle Accidents, Medical Research, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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