Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, examines a Government Accountability Office report on Medicare Advantage costs, a scheduled House vote on mental health parity legislation, Senate approval of the
Parents should examine their children's Easter toys for lead contamination following an independent scientific survey that found nearly 30 percent of holiday toys purchased randomly at retail stores contained dangerous levels of the toxic element.
Although research in this area is in its infancy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is generally revealed by a recent overview to be a promising therapy in terms of clinical effectiveness.
Author Andrea Perry, an integrative psychotherapist, developed full-blown claustrophobia after a distressing incident on a train going through the Channel Tunnel. "Despite knowing intellectually and professionally that avoidance wouldn't help", she says, "the overwhelming sense of dread I experienced subsequently made using lifts, tunnels, the underground, even revolving doors practically impossible. The anxiety was highly debilitating".