Married And Living With Mental Illness and other top stories.

• Married And Living With Mental Illness

  

  It is a common belief that married couples fight about three things: intimacy, money, and children (in no specific order). In my house we have a fourth: mental illness. It is sometimes a standalone argument and frustration, and often times it just adds color to the other arguments. My wife is amazing. That doesn’t mean we don’t argue and don’t get extremely frustrated with one another. I believe it means we argue the right amount and that we are mindful the right amount (and sometimes that amoun..

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• This poll shows Trump, Clinton running neck-and-neck in final 20 days

  

  Donald Trump holds a single-point lead over Hillary Clinton in a new national poll by Investor's Business Daily/TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which has earned praise for its track record of accuracy in the last three presidential election cycles.

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• The tobacco industry's strategy to kill a new statewide cigarette tax: Blow a lot of smoke

  

  Finally, there’s something to laugh at in this glum election season. Thanks to the tobacco lobby.These poison peddlers are actually very serious. They don’t mean to evoke laughter. But what they’re spewing is so disingenuous and hypocritical it’s a joke. The cigarette makers are bellyaching about the “wealthy special interests” — doctors, dentists, hospitals, health insurers — who are trying to “tax grab” on the Nov. 8 ballot. What’s being grabbed, of course, is a hefty tax hike on tobacco pro..

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• Pre-Teens Need Just Two Doses of HPV Vaccine, Not Three: Feds

  

  There's good news for kids who haven't received all their HPV vaccines yet - they only need two doses of the vaccine instead of three, federal government advisers said Wednesday. The new recommendations should make it easier to get more children vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes a range of cancers including cervical cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, officials said. University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. (L) gives an HPV vaccina..

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• Sexually Transmitted Disease Cases Hit New High in US

  

  More cases of sexually transmitted diseases were reported last year than ever before, federal officials said Wednesday — just as state and local health departments that could help fight them lose funding. More than 1.5 million people were reported with chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A cartoon showing a gonorrhea bacterium CDC The CDC recorded nearly 400,000 cases of gonorrhea and nearly 24,000..

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• CDC advises pregnant women who have been to Miami-Dade be tested for Zika

  

  "Our guidance today strengthens our travel advice and testing recommendations for pregnant women, to further prevent the spread of the infection among those most vulnerable," Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, said in a statement.The updated recommendations for Miami-Dade County come in response to last week's announcement by Florida Gov. Rick Scott that local transmission of the virus was confirmed in Miami's Little River neighborhood -- the third Miami ..

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• More than half of US adults with mental illness don't get needed care

  

  Health care reform has expanded mental health care coverage for Americans, an annual report released this week suggests, but about 56 percent of U.S. adults with a mental illness still do not receive treatment. The nonprofit Mental Health America (MHA) reported that 40 million Americans are dealing with a mental illness such as depression or anxiety. Despite new health initiatives, 19 percent of adults with mental illness in states that didn’t expand Medicaid remain uninsured, while 13 percent ..

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• The NFL has high school athletes thinking pink, but where are the proceeds going?

  

  The sky goes pink behind the Broad Run student section for an Oct. 17 game against Briar Woods in Ashburn. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) For the eighth straight October, the National Football League has gone pink. Players wear pink gloves, cleats, hats and towels. Referees blow pink whistles. The league drops a pink ribbon beneath its shield on game-used footballs. All of these displays are part of the league’s partnership with the American Cancer Society to raise money and conscious..

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