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  • Jehlen wants service agencies to be able to renegotiate state contracts 17 May 2008 00:18 GMT
    ... Legislators urged colleagues support a bill that would allow non-profits providing human services ... Attaliades, CEO of The Edinburg Center, a mental health agency with major offices in Lexington, Arlington ... Mental Health & Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts. Those workers have received some state-funded salary ...

  • Order of the day: policy change 16 May 2008 22:31 GMT
    ... and representatives urged people to support a bill that would allow non-profits providing human services ... Attaliades, CEO of The Edinburg Center, a mental health agency with major offices in Lexington, Arlington ... Mental Health & Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts. Those workers have received some state-funded salary ...

  • Bill would boost nonprofits with state contracts 16 May 2008 21:17 GMT
    ... Bill would boost nonprofits with state contracts Posted ... Attaliades, CEO of The Edinburg Center, a mental health agency with major offices in Lexington, Arlington ... Mental Health & Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts. Those workers have received some state-funded salary ...

  • legislative breakfast this morning 16 May 2008 21:15 GMT
    ... and representatives urged people to support a bill that would allow non-profits providing human services ... Attaliades, CEO of The Edinburg Center, a mental health agency with major offices in Lexington, Arlington ... Mental Health & Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts. Those workers have received some state-funded salary ...

  • Rhonda Meister leaves lasting legacy at St. Joseph Center 16 May 2008 19:52 GMT
    ... Heart (which merged with Boston College) in Massachusetts, where the family had moved, before earning ... "I was in total shock," Meister says, still looking surprised. New vision needed During the ... Monica documented just how both physically and mentally ill people living on the street really ...

  • Senate budget plan leans heavily on new tax revenues 15 May 2008 22:56 GMT
    ... things to come,” Panagiotakos lamented that “This will be the first year, I believe, since ... taken out of the rainy day account.” Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Michael Widmer cautioned that ... change the name of the Department of Mental Retardation to the Department of Disabilities Services. The ...

  • Senate budget plan leans heavily on new tax revenue 15 May 2008 22:38 GMT
    ... things to come,” Panagiotakos lamented that “This will be the first year, I believe, since ... taken out of the rainy day account.” Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Michael Widmer cautioned that ... change the name of the Department of Mental Retardation to the Department of Disabilities Services. The ...

  • Same-sex Marriage Experts Available 15 May 2008 18:13 GMT
    ... same-sex marriage experience in San Francisco and Massachusetts. She also is writing a book on ... to organize the most knowledgeable social scientists, mental health professionals, and physicians in the United States ...

  • Top Retail Produce Managers From Around the Country Are Honored for Promoting Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 15 May 2008 15:59 GMT
    ... Terry will take one student, who is mentally or physically challenged, and work with him/her ... kids and parents. In fact, Eddie is instrumental in testing Food Lion’s new Kids Only ... retail management trainees, Jim has traveled throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire to coach produce managers ...

  • UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial appoint chair of neurology 15 May 2008 14:18 GMT
    ... Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. ... including some types of muscular dystrophy. He will join UMMS and UMass Memorial in October. ... agencies, hospice programs, a rehabilitation group and mental health services. UMass Memorial is the clinical partner ...

  • Homeless Advocates Call for Services, Not Just Housing 15 May 2008 06:16 GMT
    ... HUD financing. May 14, 2008 -- A Massachusetts non-profit is arming local advocates for homeless ... many homeless people are in need of mental health care and other services, one of the ... bgcolor=#cccccc colspan=2 height=1> Several sections of a bill that enhances the ability of government agencies ...

  • Helpers need help 15 May 2008 02:14 GMT
    ... and Elise houses close, Hakenson said, it will not be the fault of the residents. ... Susan was deemed “unhousable.” Severe, minimally treated mental illness issues caused Susan to distrust people. When ... has her birth certificate, Social Security card, Massachusetts identification card and a bank account. “Nancy ...

  • Senior notes (May 16) 14 May 2008 23:07 GMT
    ... the season of AARP's Waltham/Watertown/Belmont Chapter 3809 will take place at 1 p.m., Monday, June ... events@springwell.com. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Bar Association and is part of the ... nonlocal medical transportation is provided through Springwell. Supplemental transportation services are available to Watertown seniors thanks ...

  • At the libraries: May 15-29 14 May 2008 22:48 GMT
    ... Vanished Child”. These three experienced Brookline authors will provide tips on both traditional and innovative ... & Almanac”. These books explore Boston and Massachusetts history, including several Brookline connections. Artifacts, photos ... thought about your health? How about your mental health? All that stress, you need a few ...

  • Poor Socio-Economic& Educational Status Trigger Off Depression! 14 May 2008 21:28 GMT
    ... akin to counting grasses in a field. Still, the scientists and doctors are discovering newer ... social evil that gnaws into the very mental and physical well being of an individual. On ... a recent study conducted by Brandeis University, Massachusetts and Cincinnati hospital mental center, depression was ...

  • A victory for our state veterans 14 May 2008 18:49 GMT
    ... study, that the four Boston-area VA hospitals will continue functioning as they have been, we ... the services they require, both physical and mental, will be in demand. In Massachusetts, there are about 138,000 World War II ...

  • Hawaii's Special Education Melt-down Prompts Parents to Seek Remedies 14 May 2008 14:15 GMT
    ... Gov. Lingle signed an $11,672,564 emergency appropriation bill this month at the state Board of ... of children with autism and other intensive mental health needs have been told by the special ... the 60 percent of aspiring teachers in Massachusetts who flunked a high-school-level literacy test. The ...

  • Time to reform the children's mental health care system 14 May 2008 12:55 GMT
    ... Recently in Salem, families of children with mental illness, doctors and nurses, educators and social workers, ... state of children's mental health care in Massachusetts. At the forum — which was sponsored ... supporting behavioral health screenings by pediatricians. The bill also provides support to early education settings ...

  • Robert Kelly: Music exorcises singer's demons 14 May 2008 12:03 GMT
    ... two decades a familiar figure in eastern Massachusetts. Before assuming her current position as music ... father had deserted her; her mother was mentally ill. "Doctors had said she'd kill my sister ...

  • LUNESTA(R) Study Of Patients With Insomnia And Co-Morbid Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Published In Archives Of General Psychiatry 14 May 2008 11:30 GMT
    ... insomnia may have co-existing medical and psychiatric illnesses," said Mark H.N. Corrigan, M.D., Executive Vice ... scale that captures physicians' ratings of patients' mental illness symptoms) scores were significantly (p<0.02) improved ... Sepracor's corporate headquarters are located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. 1 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

  • Prana Announces PNAS Publication Describing New Class of Anti-AmyloidDrugs 14 May 2008 05:16 GMT
    ... directed against the amyloid present in Alzheimer's Disease, composed of the Abeta protein. By specifically ... institutions including The University of Melbourne, The Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) and Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard ...

  • Have A Great Day! (18 Veterans Will Kill Themselves Today) 14 May 2008 00:06 GMT
    ... are told to wait before seeing a mental health specialist. Some may use pills or drive ... drive their car into a wall. Some will slit their wrists. All our brave young ... brought back up. They're killing themselves in Massachusetts and Florida. They're killing themselves in West ...

  • Framingham Special Education Parent Advisory Council sets election 14 May 2008 00:06 GMT
    ... contact F-SEPAC Executive Committee members. F-SEPAC also will hold a question-and-answer session for parents/guardians to ... The panel discussion will include Michelle Gauget, Massachusetts Family TIES; Robert Bass, New England Index; ... and Deb Foster Smith, Mass. Department of Mental Retardation. This panel will start after the election ...

  • Washington claimant files asbestos suit in Madison County 13 May 2008 23:33 GMT
    ... at various locations in Illinois, Washington and Massachusetts. Regal claims that during the course of ... Regal also suffers "great physical pain and mental anguish, and also will be hindered and prevented from pursuing his ...

  • Anti-Inflammatories Should Not Be Used To Prevent Alzheimer's, Study 13 May 2008 22:58 GMT
    ... involved in the development of the neurodegenerative disease and in the decline of cognitive function ... the 6 trial sites: Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Rochester, New York; Seattle, Washington; Sun City, ... one specific cognitive function test, the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (modified MMSE), often used to screen ...

  • Prana Announces PNAS Publication Describing New Class of Anti-Amyloid Drugs 13 May 2008 19:08 GMT
    ... directed against the amyloid present in Alzheimer's Disease, composed of the Abeta protein. By specifically ... institutions including The University of Melbourne, The Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) and Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard ...

  • Bipolar expert will speak at National Alliance dinner 13 May 2008 05:30 GMT
    ... Bipolar expert will speak at National Alliance dinner Going? Who ... Trip in 4-D" What National Alliance on Mental Illness Western Tidewater annual dinner When 6 p.m. ... Dr. Gary Sachs from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. The events in Detroit, Atlanta ...

  • Bipolar expert to speak today in Franklin 13 May 2008 05:30 GMT
    ... Bipolar expert will speak at National Alliance dinner Going? Who ... Trip in 4-D" What National Alliance on Mental Illness Western Tidewater annual dinner When 6 p.m. ... Dr. Gary Sachs from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. The events in Detroit, Atlanta ...

  • Functional Imaging: Reflections of the Brain at Work 13 May 2008 04:53 GMT
    ... functional MRI (fMRI), made simultaneously with the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University and the University of ... particularly enthused by the current and future mental health applications of fMRI. “We’re looking at a ... and enhanced effectiveness of investigational therapies. FIRC will foster the extension of fMRI into new ...

  • Protecting Assets When Faced with a Nursing Home Admission 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... Medicaid regulations prior to nursing home admission, will hold a free seminar on February 26, ... Milton Hospital; The Southeastern Area Department of Mental Health Committees and the Friends of Taunton State ... hospitals, elder agencies and businesses throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. Commonwealth Advisory Group has appeared with Jordan ...

  • Proposed Measure Would Provide Affordable Health Insurance For Fishermen 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... Fishing Partnership Health Plan that began in Massachusetts in 1997. A combination of federal ($3.8 ... covers preventive care, office visits, medications, chiropractic, mental health and substance abuse services and emergency treatment ... Then when it is passed, the funding will be there for the research, planning, implementation ...

  • Casino foes seek allies in New Bedford 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... Everett, spokesman for the group. "Our success will be in having an open, public conversation ... build a resort casino just off the Massachusetts Turnpike. Northeast Resorts also hold options on ... the Massachusetts chapters of National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Association of Social Workers ...

  • Anti-casino coalition taking its message to the people 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... gamble or whether they don't, because it will affect all of us," said Laura Everett, ... out to bid — one in Southeastern Massachusetts, one in greater Boston and one in ... state chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Association of Social Workers, ...

  • Crisis in the U.S.: Plan B? 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... foreign policy, to destruction wreaked on the Bill of Rights by illegal surveillance of citizens, ... his constituents at a private meeting in Massachusetts on July 5, 2007, that he could ... U.S. is reflected in an epidemic of mental and emotional illness and a rising violent crime ...

  • Small Business Bill's Backers Turn Up Pressure on Senate 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... Small business bill's backers turn up pressure on Senate A ... coverage that include such services as mammograms, mental health and limits on rates for older or ... and other state officials. Opponents also include Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who is running ...


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