October 2009 - Mental Health Update

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Smaller classes in early years key to bridging achievement gap

Governments spend a lot of time and effort in trying to reduce the gap in educational achievement between high and low achievers. New research from the U.S. suggests that concentrating these efforts on reducing class sizes in the very first years of school...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 7:09 AM by Mental Health Update
Injecting other drug users

Brighton has one of the biggest drug problems of any UK city and it is thought that around 2% of people between the ages of 15 and 44 inject drugs. The coroner of Brighton has raised concerns that the practice of drug users injecting other people might...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 2:09 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Substance Abuse
NICE issues new guidelines on depression

NICE (the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has issued new guidelines on the treatment of depression. The guidelines say that the evidence for using counselling is 'very limited' and that it should only be used...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 3:14 AM by Mental Health Update

Filed under: Depression
Lead, learning and literacy

Exposure to lead in childhood can significantly reduce children's scores in end-of-year reading tests. Researchers from Duke University and North Carolina Central University looked into the links between levels of lead in children's bloodstreams...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 4:41 AM by Mental Health Update

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