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Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations - DoJ
Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists WASHINGTON - Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and payment of kickbacks to physicians and to the nation’s largest long-term care phar...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 5, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Repeatedly Checking Things Before Leaving the House
Do you repeatedly check the stove to see if it is turned off or to see if things are unplugged before you go out? You may have a disorder called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD.Contributor: Alyssa RussoPublished: Oct 25, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - October 25, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Is It The ‘Baby Blues’ or Something More?
A friend texted me the other morning that a woman she went to high school with was suffering from postpartum depression and hanged herself. The baby was five weeks old. Extremely upsetting. Tragic. Untimely. Before I was a parent, I absorbed these stories from a social work perspective. Not enough resources, support groups, coping mechanisms. Now, as a new mom, there is a part of me that understands the pain, the confusion, the insane hormones. For most women, pregnancy is a joyful time. Strangers are nicer, food is plentiful and you spend your spare time picking out furniture and baby clothes. For the few days after yo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jill Ceder, MSW, JD Tags: Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Psychology Women's Issues anxiety Bipolar Disorder Brooklyn Childbirth executive grief Katherine Stone Mother New Mom Obstetrics OCD Postpartum postpar Source Type: blogs

Help! I Have Three Weddings in the Next Month, but the Beauty Budget for Only One Look!
\ October is seemingly is the new hot month for weddings. Am I right? It feels like everyone has weddings all over the country this month. (And our Web Features Editor, Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, just got married at the end of September!) But with a limited budget -- and a lot of product needed -- our wedding-attending reader, who has three coming up, needed one palette that covers all of the nuptials' themes: Black Tie, Beachy Chic and Cocktail Glam. A big request, maybe, but I am loving the new, limited-edition Benefit I'm Glam...Therefore I Am` palette, since it's got almost everything you need for super simple, ...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - October 18, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Beauty beauty products beauty tips weddings Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: October 18, 2013
Just when you feel like you’re sinking into a routine, life brings an unexpected challenge your way. Seasons change. People change. Your symptoms worsen or the medication you’ve been on suddenly fails to work. It can leave the best of us feeling helpless, anxious and alone. When what you previously relied on changes, it’s easy to melt into a pool of fear and anguish. But instead of succumbing to a permanent state of despair, this current difficulty can raise you up. It can push you from a state of insecurity to a place of courage and surprising strength. The solution? Drastic self-care. Our posts this wee...
Source: World of Psychology - October 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs anxiety Body Dysmorphic Disorder Compulsive Hoarding Flickr Margarita Mental Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Psychology Zoe Source Type: blogs

Finding Work or a Job When You Have OCD
I am generally a pretty positive guy. A long time ago, when I was talking with a therapist during behavior therapy, I recall she was trying to tell me something about the nature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She said that I seemed very happy talking to her while I was talking to her. However, she said, in the end, after the therapy session, OCD would try to remove the hope I was exhibiting during the session once I walked out to the sidewalk. Reality would take over. In this article, I argue that it is OCD — and not reality — that tries to systematically remove hope of this particular sufferer. If i...
Source: World of Psychology - October 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Keith Fraser Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Medications OCD Personal Psychology Self-Esteem Success & Achievement anxiety Body Dysmorphic Disorder Depression Financial Crisis finding work Fluvoxamine Job Obsessive Compulsive Disor Source Type: blogs

It’s Gravitational, Man!
Do you have your gravitons in working order? Well, I have a schedule chock full of fun planned for today and it is totally devoid of football mania. I am once again taking my obsessive/compulsive mother to Auburn to pick up a dozen more books from Books-A-Million that were delivered and have arrived. “Do you think she is really reading all these books?” my father asked me last night with an air of incredulousness. “She’s reading them and then she is giving them to the local library,” was my reply. Furrows of a frown erupted on his forehead, but he didn’t say another word about it. Then we are headed to ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Source Type: blogs

FDA guidelines for mobile health apps relevant to cognitive/ mental health [feedly]
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Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - October 4, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

FDA guidelines for mobile health apps relevant to cognitive/ mental health
21 types of health apps the FDA could regulate but won’t (MobiHealthNews): “The FDA final guidance finally published last week and it included very few surprises. One new section in the final guidelines — that was not included in the draft guidance — is a list of the types of apps that the FDA says will fall under its enforcement discretion. That means that these apps may meet the definition of a medical device, but the “FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion for these mobile apps because they pose lower risk to the public…In the pages to follow is a roundup of the FDA’s list of apps that it does not ...
Source: SharpBrains - October 4, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology anxiety depression FDA medical device mobile apps psychiatric apps Source Type: blogs

OCD: Sometimes It’s Not You, It’s the Situation
Virginia Woolf, the 20th century English author who also suffered from mental illness, once wisely wrote “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” Recently, I was talking to my psychiatrist. It was another one of those “Do I or don’t I?” medication moments that people with mental illness routinely have to live with. He had treated me for my obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for about six months before I decided to be treated by another facility. I didn’t like the new facility’s recommendations, so I had gone back to this doctor for a second opinion. Since I had been treated by him for at leas...
Source: World of Psychology - September 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Keith Fraser Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Medications Mental Health and Wellness OCD Personal Success & Achievement Treatment anhedonia Coping With Mental Illness English Author Enjoying Life Insights Intrusive Thoughts People Wit Source Type: blogs

The Disturbing Discrepancy & Double Standard Between Mental Illness & Other Health Concerns
It would seem that the subject of mental illness has, at long last, captured the attention of the American public. Why, you may ask, is this so? Perhaps it is the fact that when mind-boggling mass murders occur in such ordinary towns as Newtown, Conn. or Aurora, Colo., we are inundated with stories about the suspected mental state of the perpetrators. Although the aforementioned individuals may suffer, or may have suffered, from any number of debilitating mental illnesses, the vast majority of the mentally ill are not violent. Unfortunately, their stories, and their daily struggles merely to survive, rarely make the 6 o&...
Source: World of Psychology - September 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Suzanne Handler, MEd Tags: Bipolar Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness OCD Personal Policy and Advocacy PTSD Schizophrenia Treatment Alarming Numbers Clock News Conn Discrepancy Health Concerns Isolation Mass Murders Meaningfu Source Type: blogs

The Gift of Endless Memory
is called superior autobiographical memory. The ability to recall nearly every day of one's life. +Alzheimer's Reading Room Marilu Henner People suffering from Alzheimer's disease can't remember. It starts when they can't remember things that happened recently. Or, when they start forgetting how to do simple tasks, like how to balance a checkbook. My mother had been buying lottery tickets daily for 20 years. Before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she went to the store and bought lottery tickets every day. When she first started to suffer from dementia, she still remembered that she wanted to buy lotte...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 1, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Brain circuit can tune anxiety
Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop better treatments, a more specific understanding of the brain circuits that produce anxiety is necessary, says […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - August 30, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Virtual Heart Beats to the Rhythm of the Light
Optogenetics is a very recent and powerful tool for researchers and biomedical engineers working in the field of neuro-stimulation. By applying pulses of light via an external or implanted light source to photo-sensitive tissue, electrical impulses can be induced in a very select region of tissue. A major advantage of optogenetics is its increased selectivity relative to existing electrode-based approaches. While early applications for the technique include treatment of neurological disorders such as epilepsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder, optogenetic stimulation of lab grown muscle tissue has also been demonstrate...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gavin Corley Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs