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Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
(cross-posted from Beyond VSH blog , here ) From an advocate's e-mail concerning a press conference, followed by a protest, planned for Friday, November 6, 2009 at the Vermont State House beginning at 12:15 PM: On Friday, Nov. 6 at 12:15, a coalition of organizations opposed to the closing of the Vermont State Hospital canteen will hold a press conference at the Statehouse in the Cedar Creek room,...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
On Thursday this week, House Democratic leaders presented a new health care overhaul bill that melds legislation passed by three committees over the summer and makes a series of changes to accommodate lawmakers' concerns. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is finalizing legislation merging the work of two committees, Finance and Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP).
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Members of the local National Alliance on Mental Illness recently contributed $10,000 to the Reno Police Department's Mobile Outreach Safety Team, funding that will go toward maintaining and equipping a special van used to transport the mentally ill and homeless to area services.
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Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A recent article by Gardner Harris in the New York Times focused on the financial links among health care corporations and not-for-profit disease (or patient) advocacy groups. A majority of the donations made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one of the nation’s most influential disease advocacy groups, have come from drug makers in recent years, according to Congressional investigators....
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) As Halloween approaches, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is issuing a Halloween "stigma alert" for costumes and other seasonal attractions that feature inaccurate and offensive stereotypes regarding those with mental health illnesses.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) applauds the commitment by National Public Radio to devote time to the ongoing and important topic of mental illness through their recent show "Colleges See Rise In Mental Health Issues," which highlighted the dramatic increase in the number of students with mental illness on the nation's college and university campuses.
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Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I’m on Vera Sharav’s mailing list and asked permission today to reprint what she sent out today. Thank you Vera. ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION A Catalyst for Public Debate: Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability Senator Charles Grassley has hit the bull’s eye when he asked the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) to submit financial documents showing...
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Policy and Medicine (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and spouses) of those with mental illness, over the years they have been perhaps one of the most effective groups in helping...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Last week, the National Alliance on Mental Illness vowed to lessen its ties to the pharmaceutical industry after a US Senate Finance Committee probe found the most donations to the big advocacy group came from drug makers. Since then, documents have surfaced indicating the extent to which NAMI cavorted with one drug maker, AstraZeneca (see [...]
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is joining advocates from across the nation in asking President Obama to make medical research for improving health care a priority and support robust funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) applauds the commitment by National Public Radio to devote time to the ongoing and important topic of mental illness through their recent show "Colleges See Rise In Mental Health Issues," which highlighted the dramatic increase in the number of students with mental illness on the nation's college and university campuses....
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Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Cross posted from Beyond VSH : Yesterday's New York Times covers an issue that Vermont patients' rights advocates have been trying to address for years. NAMI, a national organization that attacks the patients' rights movement and the very concept that anyone would have the right to refuse treatment by labeling mental illnesses as "brain diseases", received almost $23 million from the drug...
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Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Yesterday, UC Hastings College of Law told its students about next year's prospective tuition. Due to the graphic nature of the content below, viewer discretion is advised. Please remember that Hastings is a public law school: Let's put those horrifying figures in appropriate context, Stanford Law School's tuition for this academic year is $42,420 . Stanford of course could go as high as Hastings...
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World of Psychology (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
As we noted in April, NAMI gets a significant portion of its funding from pharmaceutical companies. We had to guess at what that percentage was, however, because the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) refused to detail their pharmaceutical ... ...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
A majority of donations made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a big advocacy group, have come from drug makers in recent years, according to Congressional investigators. The disclosure comes after protracted criticism of NAMI for coordinating lobbying efforts with drug makers and pushing legislation that also benefits the pharma industry, The New [...]
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