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Krave Massive, World's Biggest Gay Night Club, To Open In Las Vegas : If Las Vegas club owner Kelly Murphy gets his way, Sin City could usurp the crown from New York as the number one gay tourism destination in the United States.

Rugby League's London Broncos Hold First Gay Day In Honor Of Olympic Pride ... It is a project of Pride Sports UK , in collaboration with the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation, the Federation of Gay Games, the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association, Phoenix FC and the LGBT Consortium. Lou Englefield, director of ...

Homeless households increase by 25% : Some 50290 families and individuals were classed as homeless and in need of emergency accommodation in 2011/12, compared with 40020 in 2009/10 - an increase of more than 25%. But despite the rise in the number of cases, spending on tackling ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Mental health problems linked to death risk : Mental health problems linked to death risk. People with anxiety or depression, commonly referred to as psychological distress, may be at a higher risk of death, warned researchers in the UK ...

Gail Porter Takes Desperate Step To Beat Depression : Gail Porter is quitting the UK in a desperate attempt to beat her depression once and for all. The TV presenter will spend three months in an intense rehab program in South Africa after struggling to cope with mental health issues over the last few years.

Bipolar UK | No health without mental health: implementation ... : The government's implementation framework for its mental health strategy ... the developing communications and policy work undertaken by Bipolar UK over the ...

Mental abuse can be as harmful to kids as physical abuse: report : But some large population-based studies in the U.K. and U.S. found almost nine per cent of women and four per cent of men reported being exposed to severe psychological abuse during childhood. MacMillan emphasizes that parents or caregivers who on ...

Dewani to appear before UK court In March, Britain's High Court temporarily halted Dewani's extradition on mental health grounds, saying it would be "unjust and oppressive". At the time, the court said he would be extradited to South Africa as soon as he was fit. Dewani is being ...

It's time to make a fuss about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder In 2010, a study partly funded by the MoD and published in The Lancet, reported that “deployment to Iraq has not adversely affected the mental health of regular UK military personnel”. This bold statement conflicted with research findings in the US ...

The politics of mental health : Charles Walker starts to sit down next to me, rises and pulls up another seat. "Let's have this fourth chair here," he says, and pulls it up between us. I think he is joking. But he isn't: without the fourth chair it would be very hard for him to do ... The Guardian

Government launches mental health implementation framework ... : The Government has published its mental health implementation framework, which sets out what organisations can do to make the main objectives of the mental ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Gloucestershire's population is growing older : This is equivalent to a growth of 5.7 per cent, lower than the England and Wales average of 7.8 per cent, because of a smaller increase in children, young people and the working age population. It comes despite a higher jump in the county's older ...

Bromsgrove groups invited to register for the 2012 Directory of Older People's ... LOCAL community groups and services that work with people over 50 are being asked to let the Bromsgrove Partnership know about any of their activities for inclusion in the 2012 Directory of Older People's Services. Following the positive reception of ...

Twice as many Brighton and Hove pathways need repair : Graham Mitchell, from Age UK Brighton and Hove, warned that poorly maintained infrastructure could stop older people feeling confident enough to go out. He added: “Of course improvements cost money and few councils have money to spare. “But when ...

Take care in hot weather : As the UK heats up, older adults are being reminded to take extra care by the Nottinghamshire County Council, the Nottingham Post reported. The body's ability to cope with high temperatures diminishes as people age, meaning that older people are at a ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Communication breakdown: improving dialogue between seniors and the state : Knowing the right channels, and the right ways to communicate with the UK's older people will make this possible. It will also mean that central and local government will be better equipped to respond swiftly to changes in public service demands and ... The Guardian (blog)

Drugs infographic: 1 in 3 admit to taking cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy : Despite the drop, cannabis remains the most popular substance – 2.3m people in England and Wales used it last year, more than three times as many who took cocaine and more than four times those who took Ecstasy. The Home Office Crime Survey also ... Metro

Cannabis could cure woman's cancer : A SCOTS woman battling terminal cancer wants to travel to the Netherlands to receive controversial new treatment with cannabis in a last ditch attempt to cure herself. Margo Morrison, 63, was diagnosed with lung cancer and secondary liver cancer this ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Edward Ward, 75, was arrested off the Moroccan coast with cannabis worth £1 ... : His yacht, the UK -registered Arabian Moonshine, is expected to remain in the court's custody until the investigation is complete. Caught smuggling: Nadine Jones and Simeon Archibald were arrested in Grenada trying to smuggle nearly 3lbs of cocaine on ... Daily Mail

Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets? : Portable chemistry sets were first used in the 18th Century but it took more than 100 years before they became popular with children , partly prompted by a desire to recreate the coloured puffs of smoke used by conjurors. "It was part of a craze for ... BBC News

Safety fears 'prevent outdoor play' : There were also concerns about intimidation from others and crime while around one in six (17.1%) say that their child does not play out because they simply want to be indoors. The poll, which questioned 1000 parents, suggests that many believe they ...

Parents warned over whooping cough epidemic : Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated against whooping cough after dozens of youngsters were struck down by an outbreak. Eighty-two cases have been confirmed in adults and children in Greater Manchester this year so far – more than ...

Failure: Social workers missed abuse of Baby P : They are the tiny faces of innocents whose short lives were ended at the hands of evil beyond belief. They are the children subjected to unspeakable abuse behind closed doors – unseen by those who could have saved them. They are some of the cases ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Warning over child psychological abuse : There are no clear estimates of the extent of psychological abuse, but about 9% of women and 4% of men reported severe psychological abuse during their childhoods in a large recent study in the US and the UK . Previous surveys have found that emotional ... Healthcare Today

Schools must tackle causes of bad behaviour : The warning comes ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, Lost Children , which aims to show what school life is like through the eyes of two children attending Barnardo's High Close School, in Berkshire, where all pupils have a statement of special ... Yahoo! Lifestyle UK

Fashion journalist launches site to highlight mental health problems in young ... A GRADUATE who has launched an online youth magazine to raise awareness of mental health issues in the fashion industry has been overwhelmed by the positive response. Victoria Aitchison, 27, originally from Turnberry Close, St Leonards, came up with ...

Anxiety and depression increase risk of sick leave ... the other way around. On the other hand, people with common mental disorders also suffered several episodes of sick leave during the follow-up time, which may indicate that both sick leave and the mental health problems affect each other and thus ...

The politics of mental health Service-user-led charity NSUN network for mental health is leading the way to try and ensure this happens during the current changes to the NHS, social care and benefits system. 

Stradishall: Justice system failing mentally ill prisoners The report, which describes the slow treatment of inmates with mental health issues as “intolerable”, revealed that last year 10 prisoners were sectioned out of the prison with four of those being kept in segregation for an average of 46 days after the ...

Campaign bids to tackle malnutrition among the elderly A booklet, which talks people through the steps they should take if someone elderly they know is losing weight, is also available. 

The Libor scandal could undermine our faith in the financial system even more ... According to legal findings by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. 's Financial Services Administration, the wrongdoing extended to nothing less than criminal conspiracies within Barclays and between it and its competitors, all on ...

Police clamp down on Games touts "I would also urge people to think twice about purchasing tickets from these criminals: if you do, you are likely to find yourself paying over the odds for them, while at the same time fuelling criminality ." He said anybody buying tickets from ...

55 Percent LGBT Still Experiance Bullying “New research carried out by the University of Cambridge for Stonewall's School Report 2012 has found that 55 per cent of lesbian , gay and bisexual pupils in Britain's secondary schools experience homophobic bullying.” Although much has changed for the ...

LGBT Groups Declare 100 Days of Hunger Strikes The groups, hosted by Affirmations in Ferndale, aim to draw attention to the fact the state has no LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance and grants no domestic partnership rights by taking it in turns to fast for 24 hours. Says the Affirmations in Ferndale ...

Civil partnerships five times more popular than expected with over 50000 ... So-called “ gay divorces” are also rising as couples approach the “seven-year itch”, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) disclosed. The number of civil partnerships formed since the ceremonies were legalised in December 2005 stood at 53417 ...

Homophobic Chick-fil-A take two: Now Colorado bakery REFUSES to bake ... A Colorado cake shop has received scores of complaints and been targeted by protestors after it refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood, rejected Dave Mullin and Charlie Craig's ...