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September 9, 2006 in San Mateo, California

October 21, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois

From a website called eMaxHealth.com

"A new treatment model for bipolar disorder tested in veterans across the nation reduced their manic episodes and improved their quality of life, according to research led by a psychiatrist with the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Brown Medical School.

The randomized, controlled trial also showed that the model did not add to the treatment costs for bipolar disorder, which affects nearly 6 million American adults a year. Results appear in two reports published in Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association."

From the Concord (NH) Monitor Online

Story by Joan Hennessy, special to the Baltimore Sun:

In decoding psychiatric disorders, one doctor says 'the next big story is the brain'

"One percent of all Americans - some 2.4 million people - have schizophrenia. An estimated 5.7 million have bipolar disorder. And 2.2 million adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

What if you found out tomorrow that you could become one of them?

Within two years, a Kentucky medical genetics company plans to market a home test designed to help consumers determine whether they are genetically susceptible to schizophrenia. The test, performed at home and analyzed in a lab, is the culmination of 10 years of research - and for better or worse, an example of what the brave new genomic world has wrought. "  Continued at the link above.