CPSA appeals ruling; action halted on change of provider for mental care
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun As promised, the Community Partnership of Arizona (CPSA) is not going down without a fight, appealing the state’s decision to award Cenpatico Behavioral Health Services the contract to oversea mental health services across four counties.
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Nine killed in latest attack at China school
Seven children and two adults are dead in another savage school attack in China, and reports indicate the teacher and the attacker may have known each other
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Cincinnati Youth Honors Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
CINCINNATI, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 30 youth-serving agencies will come together on Thursday, May 6th to honor the unsung heroes of children’s mental health in Hamilton County. Every day countless young people are challenged by mental, emotional and behavioral obstacles, and a select few adults helping to bring positive change to the community will be recognized in this 7th …
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Wearable And Implantable Devices To Monitor Vital Functions
Physiological signals can nowadays be easily monitored with measurement devices implanted inside a living body. The object – animal or human – is barely aware of the presence of the implant. An example of a device implantable in humans is the pacemaker that has long since become standard treatment for heart patients. Researcher Jarno Riistama from Tampere University of Technology (TUT) believes …
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Mentally ill woman who fatally stabbed her grandmother is an illustration of broken system
Mental health care often a merry-go-round of drugs, hospital stays, relapses
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