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Mental Health Treatment: It's Commonly Accepted Yet Not So Easy to Obtain or Understand
Younger Adults More Likely to Have Received Treatment; Stigma and Privacy Less of a Concern ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Seeing a psychologist or other mental health professional isn't an unusual thing; in fact it's relatively common. Nearly three in ten U.S. adults (29%) report that they have received treatment or...
Tags: Benefits, Harris Interactive, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, stigma, therapy
Research articles 2008-07-02
'Lust, Caution': Not just a movie title?
LAS VEGAS -- Ang Lee says he had no intention of breaking ground when he directed the film Lust, Caution. "I just wanted to make the movie I wanted to make," he says. "I didn't care what kind of rating it got." ...
Tags: movie, MPAA, stigma
Research articles 2008-03-14
British athlete Chambers says he feels like 'leper'
LONDON AFP — Dwain Chambers said in an interview published Wednesday he was being made to feel like a "leper", just a day after he won his battle to be included on Great Britain's team for next month's World Indoor Championships. Speaking to The Sun tabloid, Chambers, who was...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, stigma, Sun Microsystems Inc., team
Research articles 2008-02-12
Four big banks draw from Fed window; move seen as easing stigma
WASHINGTON AFP — Four major US banks said Wednesday they had borrowed 500 million dollars each from the Federal Reserve discount window, a move seen as helping ease a credit squeeze and reducing the stigma of such loans. The unusual announcement by four of the largest US banks came...
Tags: bank, Construction, Federal Reserve Board, stigma, window
Research articles 2007-08-22
Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the editor)
Too little spent on mental-health care Mental illness carries a great stigma in our society and people with mental illnesses are often feared and shunned. Most people, quite inaccurately, fear that those with mental illnesses may turn violent. But, in fact, violence...
Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Illinois, SOFTWARE, stigma, Taxes, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-04-18
Lung Cancer Rates Higher Among Female Non-Smokers Than Previously Thought, Stanford Study Shows
STANFORD, Calif. -- Not all lung cancer is due to a lifetime of smoking cigarettes. Sometimes the diagnosis is a mystery, and the stigma surrounding the disease makes it hard for patients to talk about. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Northern California Cancer Center...
Tags: patient, researcher, Stanford, Stanford University, stigma, women
Research articles 2007-02-08
Stigma remains greatest hurdle in Kenya's fight against AIDS
NAIROBI AFP — Three-year-old Ibraham Akinyi pushes a toy car made of scrap metal across a makeshift wooden table, oblivious to the horrors that befell his mother, Beatrice, after his father's death from AIDS in 2003. "Two days after my husband's funeral, a group of his relatives, including his father,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, husband, stigma
Research articles 2006-12-01
Yale Researchers Find Stigmatizing Overweight People Can DiscourageDieting.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Researchers Find Stigmatizing Overweight People Can DiscourageDietingC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25102006 New Haven, Conn. -- A Yale University study of overweight people tested the claim that weight bias motivates people to lose weight and ...
Tags: food, Manufacturing, stigma, Yale University
Research articles 2006-10-26
Fulham boss Coleman backs life ban for taking bungs
LONDON AFP — Fulham manager Chris Coleman has supported European football's governing body UEFA who say anyone convicted of receiving money illegally in transfer dealings should be banned for life. A television programme last week claimed several people in the sport were guilty of receiving these "bungs" and the BBC...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, football, Games, stigma, TVs
Research articles 2006-09-25
Oscar nominee Naomi Watts joins UN fight against AIDS
UNITED NATIONS AFP — Renowned British-Australian actress Naomi Watts agreed to serve as UN special envoy for the global fight against AIDS and to help break down the stigma surrounding the scourge. Watts made the announcement at a packed press conference here following her week-long fact-finding trip to Zambia...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, stigma
Research articles 2006-05-15
Neighborhood stigma twenty years later: revisiting superfund sites in suburban New Jersey.(Case study)
abstract Six Superfund hazardous waste sites in suburban New Jersey were examined for evidence of long-term stigma. Two decades after being added to the Superfund list, the areas immediately surrounding four of the six sites show some, but not substantial, evidence of lingering stigma,...
Tags: Environmental, FINANCE, Government, landfill, Median, Risk, stigma, Taxes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-03-22
Clinton call to eradicate HIV stigma.
Byline: Fiona Carruthers Feb 22, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The former US president, Bill Clinton, has spoken out about AIDS. At the Westin Hotel ...
Tags: Australia, Leadership, Qantas Airways Ltd., stigma
Research articles 2006-02-22
U.S. Business Motivated to Tackle HIV/AIDS
GENEVA, Jan. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Concern over the growing threat of HIV/AIDS is rising among U.S. businesses, according to a report just released by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and the World Economic Forum. Nearly half (49 percent) of U.S. business leaders surveyed in the report,...
Tags: FINANCE, stigma, World Economic Forum
Research articles 2006-01-12
Breakaway Somaliland intensifies war on deadly AIDS virus
NAIROBI AFP — Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has intensified efforts to halt the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus, whose prevalence has steadly risen there over the last six years, said the United Nations. Authorities in the northwestern region last week launched a National AIDS Commission to fight the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, epidemic, SECURITY, Somalia, stigma, virus
Research articles 2005-09-19
Study into self-harm finds that the urge to cut never goes away
NEW research has revealed that some people who self harm may never be free of the "urge" to hurt themselves. A study carried out at the University of Stirling found that, just like people with addictions to drugs, alcohol or gambling, sufferers can struggle to overcome the impulse...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., alcohol, Benefits, distress, HEALTHCARE, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, stigma, tool, WWW
Research articles 2005-07-31
European Parliament decisions on bathing water could mean rising bills for customers and stigma for coastal towns.
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 May 2005-UK Government: European Parliament decisions on bathing water could mean rising bills for customers and stigma for coastal townsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06052005 WaterVoice is urging MEPs to reject a move which could see one in four of...
Tags: classification, European Parliament, Quality, standards, stigma
Research articles 2005-05-06
Troubled Execs Should Run Away and Live to Fight Another Day, Research Reveals.
Byline: Texas A&M University COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 9 AScribe Newswire -- Bankruptcy is a brutal reminder of the gambles associated with the business world, but for high-level executives facing such bleak prospects, knowing when to walk away from a losing game could potentially...
Tags: bank, bankruptcy, Litigation, stigma, Texas A&M University
Research articles 2005-02-09
Zimbabwe MPs to take up public HIV tests
HARARE AFP ? A dozen Zimbabwean lawmakers will take voluntary HIV tests this week in a bid to remove the stigma attached to AIDS, the parliamentarians said. The parliamentarians from both the ruling Zimbawe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change MDC will...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, stigma
Research articles 2004-05-04
Sierra Leone government officials to submit to HIV/AIDS tests
FREETOWN AFP ? All of Sierra Leone's government ministers and their deputies are to submit to HIV/AIDS tests in a bid to erase some of the stigma attached to the disease, Vice President Solomon Berewa has said. Speaking to reporters Monday after a weekend meeting with major donors, Berewa...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE, stigma
Research articles 2004-01-27
Registration of Q4188 and Q4205, sexual tetraploid germplasm lines of bahiagrass. (Registrations of Germplasms).
Q4188 (Reg. no. GP-1, PI 619631) and Q4205 (Reg. no. GP2, PI 619632) sexual tetraploid germplasm lines of bahiagrass Paspalum notatum Flugge were developed by the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina, and released by the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste and the University of Florida Agricultural...
Tags: Argentina, embryo, FINANCE, Investment, reproduction, stigma, University of Florida
Research articles 2003-03-01