Mental Illness Affects 1 in 5 US Adults

Mental illness affects 1 in 5 US adults

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The 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health defined mental illness as having a diagnosable mental, behavioral or emotional disorder. The survey … The rate of treatment for those with serious mental illness was nearly 60 percent. An estimated 8.5 …
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Dendreon Cautiously Approaches /Share (Again)

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On one hand you have the disgust of DNDN shareholders who may have bought the stock prior to the incredibly disappointing Q2 2011 earnings release that tanked the stock by about 66%. On the other, you have DNDN shareholders who are staying very …
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Obama Offers More of the Wrong Medicine on Medicare

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For a drug to make it all the way through the development gauntlet and then face an arbitrarily-imposed Medicare rebate would add one more disincentive to develop new cures. And that makes it that much less likely that a breakthrough treatment for …
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