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Serendip's mental health resource lists are intended to provide access to web materials which we believe are of continuing usefulness in discussions of mental health issues. This "News" section is aimed at helping people be aware of possible "growing points" relevant to mental health discussions, news reports which offer what may become important new perspectives on mental health, relating either to mental health itself or to related social, political, and economic phenomena that impact on it.

• The Disability Movement Turns to Brains, From the New York Times, May 9, 2004
• A father's vigil, From the Journal News, May 5, 2004
• Combat's mental wounds, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 2004
• Acquainted With the Night': Troubled Children and Troubled Parents, Book Review, From The New York Times, May 9, 2004
• Opponents of Oregon Suicide Law Say Depressed Man Was Wrongly Given Drugs, From The New York Times, May 7, 2004
• The evidence base: rock of certainty or shifting sands?, From the British Medical Journal, April 17, 2004
• Serzone Pulled from U.S. Market, from Mental Health Resources, May 20, 2004
• Pfizer to plead guilty, pay $430 million to settle drug marketing case, From the JournalNews.com, May 14, 2004
• Psychiatric Documents Can Aid Mentally Ill in Crises, From Newhouse News Service
• Officials Fight Closing Adolescent Mental Hospital, From the New York Times, May 25, 2004
• How to Stop Depression Medications: Very Slowly, From the New York Times, May 25, 2004
• Two Countries, Two Views on Antidepressants, From the New York Times, May 25, 2004
• Bomb suspect has psychiatric history, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20, 2004
• Children still get drugs for depression, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24, 2004
• Autism Link With Vaccine Is Disputed, From IntiHealth, May 18, 2004
• Spending Soars For Kids' Behavior Drugs,, From IntiHealth, May 7, 2004
• Behavior at Age 10 May Predict Later Depression, From Reuters Health, May 21, 2004
• Mentally ill relegated to jail cells, From the Miami Herald, May 23, 2004
• Therapy in America 2004 Poll Shows: Mental Health Treatment Goes Mainstream, From PR Newswire, May 5, 2004

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These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.


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