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Early recognition, timely intervention key to treating eating disorders

August 8th, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Early recognition, timely intervention key to treating eating disorders)

The medical consequences of eating disorders can go unrecognized, even by experienced clinicians

picture 450Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses with significant, life-threatening medical and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, regardless of an individual’s weight. Anorexia Nervosa (AN), in particular, has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Risk of premature death is 6-12 times higher in women with AN as compared to the general population, adjusting for age. From February 2013… (more…)

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A story of recovery

August 6th, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on A story of recovery)

Amy Candido lives in recovery from eating disorders

picture 446The beginning of February each year marks the launch of the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign and National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

PEDAW coordinator Amy Candido has a passion for prevention, after being tortured for years by her own eating disorder.  Amy’s eating disorder began in grade eight and continued until her mid twenties.  “I was existing, not living,” she says.  From January 2013… (more…)

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Canada needs to be a leader in dealing with Indigenous issues, former PM says

August 1st, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Canada needs to be a leader in dealing with Indigenous issues, former PM says)

Former prime minister Paul Martin says that the only way in which the vow of ‘never again’ can have any substance is if people have a full awareness of what happened

picture 495Food, health and nutrition historian Ian Mosby, in what he called the most difficult research project he’d ever undertaken, has revealed that between 1942 and 1952, some of Canada’s leading nutrition experts, in cooperation with various federal departments, conducted an unprecedented series of nutritional studies of Aboriginal communities and residential schools. (more…)

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Pharma and medical research industries have routinely exploited poor, powerless

August 1st, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Pharma and medical research industries have routinely exploited poor, powerless)

The truly shocking aspect of revelations concerning the use of native children as research subjects is that we were shocked by the revelation, says author Tom Koch

picture 496Demonstrations were held across the country Thursday July 25, 2013 as a growing chorus of Canadians urged the federal government to release documents related to nutritional experiments done on aboriginal children decades ago. The protests, which varied in size, were sparked by a report published earlier in the month that said 1,300 children in northern Manitoba and at six residential schools across Canada were deprived of food and used as subjects to test the effects of minerals and vitamins in the 1940s and 1950s. [source: CTV]. (more…)

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“Let’s Talk” leader sets a personal and corporate example

July 18th, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on “Let’s Talk” leader sets a personal and corporate example)

Mary Deacon has faced and dealt with mental health issues—in her own life and the lives of those close to her—and has become a high-profile corporate advocate for mental illness education and awareness

picture 492When Mary Deacon, the chair of the Bell Let’s Talk mental health initiative, took to the podium at a recent Montreal conference about collaboration in mental health care, she talked about stigma, mental health and tweets. She also talked about some of the many projects being funded by the ambitious (and very successful) Let’s Talk campaigns.

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Conflict of interest policies at Canadian medical schools are under observation

July 11th, 2013 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Conflict of interest policies at Canadian medical schools are under observation)

Researchers say that the education of medical students should be based on the best clinical information available, rather than on commercial interests

picture 490A first-of-its kind study has analyzed the conflict-of-interest policies at the 17 medical schools across Canada. Macleans magazine reports that “overall, the researchers found policies were “permissive”—meaning most medical schools allowed interactions with sales reps, turned a blind eye to faculty’s relationships with speakers’ bureaus (so instructors who teach students may also have speaking contracts with drug companies), and failed to educate newbie doctors about conflicts of interest despite the minefield they’d be entering.” (more…)

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