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INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (Lancaster, Pa.)
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BI-POLAR ILLNESS:  A TWO-PART SERIES

Bi-polar illness:  What is it really like?  (Part one in a series)
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 44 million Americans, age 18 and over, suffer from a diagnosable mental illness.  About 2 million of these individuals live with bi-polar disorder, a particular brain disorder that causes dramatic mood swings, from overly "high"   and/or irritable, to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between.    Read more.

Bi-Polar Illness: The symptoms, the stigma, the treatment, the hope  (Part two in a series)
In last week's Business Monday, we followed the story of Donna Thomas, 51, of Conestoga, Pa. who has suffered from bi-polar illness for her entire adult life.  Thomas's early experiences with this illness resulted in a number of psychotic events and hospitalizations.  Once she was diagnosed and treated, however, and stayed on her medication, she has enjoyed a whole, happy, and productive life.   Read more.

The science of sleep
Are you often drowsy during the day? Cranky and cannot concentrate? Dozing at your desk, or worse at the wheel?  Read more.
 

Finding relief for vertigo
When rocking and rolling can heal
Upon awakening one morning, Robin Sprecher, 48, Lancaster, felt as though someone had lifted her by the ankles and was whipping her in a circle around the room.

Jolene Kapczynski, 37, Akron, woke up and suddenly felt as though she was doing back flips, even though she was lying still.

Very ill with a migraine headache, Susan Patchett, 43, Ephrata, was in the bathroom vomiting forcefully when suddenly the room started spinning. Nauseous, in pain, and now dizzy, she sank to the floor, unable to move.  Read more.
 

Food Safety 101
This past fall, Dole Fresh Vegetables, a division of the Dole Food Company, Inc. voluntarily recalled 250,000 bags of lettuce when Minnesota consumers became ill after an outbreak of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 — one of a number of harmful bacteria that may contaminate our foods.  Read more.


Breathing Room:  Lombard Medical Center is county's best kept secret
From where she sits in a sunken nurses' station, Connie Waltz carefully monitors patients in the four hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) chambers at The Robert M. Lombard Hyperbaric Oxygenation Medical Center, which some patients call the county's best kept secret.  Read more.