IndiePet held its first official meeting this week, rallying industry participants around the common goal of strengthening the independent pet channel’s position in the market.
In a recent article published in the journal
Current Medical Research and Opinion, researchers funded by AbbVie (a pharmaceutical company that sells several medications for depression and bipolar disorder) stated that they had developed a six-question âRapid Screening Toolâ for diagnosing bipolar I.
This screening tool is now being promoted in outlets such as
Yet, as even a quick look at the research paper reveals, this questionnaire wasnât even tested as a screening tool, and it relies on questions that mistake adverse reactions to antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs as symptoms of bipolar disorder.
But this publication also suggests a larger subject: Is there any evidence for âscreeningâ for psychiatric disorders? And what are the potential harms?
⢠McAlester News-Capital Editorial Board May 21, 2021
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THUMBS UP to those who enjoyed the recent celebration at a historic building and park in McAlester.
A group of L Ouverture School alumni thanked volunteers for their restoration efforts at the historic McAlester school building during a May Day celebration Saturday at McAlester s Michael J. Hunter Memorial Park.
McAlester resident Primus Moore and Herbert Keith, both L Ouverture alumni, continue their efforts to save the former public school attended by Black students in McAlester from 1908 to 1968 â when 115 L Ouverture High School students integrated with McAlester High School.
The two alumni organized the recent event based on similar activities held at the school during that era to celebrate the nearing end of the academic year.
Dino Lalli has been going to the movies since before he was born — when his father and his then-expecting mother used to watch the latest releases at the OKLA