Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
The most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 11 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
I too have experienced delusions on an airplane. Though I have tamed my one-time diagnosis of schizophrenia, I did show psychotic symptoms earlier in the year when I was switching medication.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Some suicide prevention groups aren't laughing over a scene in "The Office" where Steve Carell's character tries to scare young child...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A twofold increase in suic...
latimes.com | Seema Mehta and Martha Groves | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
The body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, an apparent suicide, sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifel...
Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?
AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son wa...
The Associated Press | Mark Scolforo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Home
LEBANON, Pa. - A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her h...
AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a man accused of killing his identical twin brother in a parallel parking accident has ...
Chloe Spencer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Be aware of all your friends and family, because they may be suffering from severe depression, and it's just bottled up inside them and invisible to others.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Households with guns are 11 times more likely to use those guns to commit suicide than for self defense. But to be fair, we don't just kill ourselves, we kill others, a lot.
AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — New York state police believe the daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas jumped to her death from the same b...
Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...
AP | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith's internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son die...
Yahoo | Associated Press | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United St...
CO. Independent | CO Independent | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
As stress in the farming sector rises across Colorado and nationwide, some mental health professionals are hoping the federal government will s...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Soldiers in Iraq face deployment after deployment without rest or time for recovery. They suffer from PTSD and depression.
Bryant Welch | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
There is just one fact Americans need to know about our current health care system. Private health insurance companies make more money if they don't provide care than if they do.
Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
In Mr. Sodini's blog, he says repeatedly, "I have nothing to lose." He had nothing to lose because he (apparently) had no strong, affectionate bonds with anyone and never had.
Brooklyn Heights Blog | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York
A distraught man kept police at bay for over 30 minutes last night as he threatened to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge. The drama unfolded shortly afte...
Dana Perry | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
My son Evan was 15 and bipolar. We always kind of expected to outlive him, but didn't -- couldn't -- imagine, on that sunny October afternoon as we sat at lunch with him, laughing and joking, that it would be that very night.
Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business