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First Free Depression and Anxiety Health Screener Mobile App ? Depressioncheck, Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

July 14, 2012     No comments


Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) January 10, 2011

Mymoodmonitor.com, the leading website for mental health screening, is now providing a free, mobile version of the M-3 Checklist, a scientifically validated screen for mood and anxiety disorders, in the Apple App store. Adapted from its existing mymoodmonitor.com website, this mobile version, called depressioncheck, provides the same validated mental health questionnaire, developed by a team of mental health practitioners and experts. The app is a simple, easy-to-use checklist and takes approximately three minutes to complete. The screen is validated for those 18 years and older and its accuracy confirmed in the March 2010 Annals of Family Medicine (http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/160).

Millions of Americans have a diagnosable mood or anxiety disorder every year while fewer than half of these individuals receive help for their condition. One reason for this shortfall has been the absence of a single, simple and reliable screen that can assess the presence of the mood and anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder and PTSD. Depressioncheck is a symptom checklist with which a user may rate his or her mood in one easy review. It is comprised of a short series of questions that touch on indicators of mental health.

Robert M. Post, M.D., Director of the Bipolar Collaborative Network, the 2010 recipient of the NAMI Scientific Research Award, and one of the creators of the M-3 Checklist, explains that, ?The Depressioncheck app is an extremely powerful and efficient way of distributing the M-3 Checklist screen. By going mobile, we can get this researched based screen in the hands of individuals who can take the screen whenever it is convenient for them. When significant symptoms are uncovered, the user receives important confirmation that his or her suffering is not somehow self-imposed, and that there are options to help improve the situation?.

As demonstrated by a 2009 research study at the University of North Carolina Medical School, the screen has the sensitivity to pick up treatable cases that are often invisible to earlier mental health screens, including many individuals who suffer from milder, but overlapping conditions, such as mixed depression and anxiety. Furthermore, it can help distinguished regular depression from the bipolar variety, and thereby avoid a common cause of mistreatment with potentially serious consequences. The customized report provides risk and severity ratings that may serve to guide the user to an appropriate treatment, whether therapy or medication.

For those in distress and at risk for suicide, depressioncheck provides a direct, one-button link to Mental Health America’s National Suicide Hotline. Interactive applications of this sort, offering users validated medical assessment and feedback in real-time, have the potential to greatly improve the dynamics of healthcare delivery, reaching many who might otherwise suffer in silence. The value of this technology to college and military populations, among others, is considerable.

The depressioncheck app is available to iPhone (telephone and data) and iPod Touch (data only) users through the Apple applications. An ongoing dialogue about the M-3 Checklist and different aspects of mood and anxiety disorders is provided at the mymoodmonitor Facebook page found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Mood-Monitor/133566943333436. A Spanish language edition and a version for the Droid operating system is planned.

About the M-3 Checklist (the research that is the basis for depressioncheck and Mymoodmonitor.com): Since the publication of the validation article in March, 2010 the M-3 Checklist has been taken by people in over 120 countries and in all 50 states. The M-3 Checklist was validated in a study performed at the University of North Carolina and published in the March 2010 issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. The study was based on the responses of 647 patients at the University of North Carolina Family Practice Medicine Clinic. Current users can screen themselves and track their responses and M-3 score on Microsoft HealthVault via mymmodmonitor.com.

The M-3, which was independently funded and developed, is particularly timely: hospitals, doctors, and patients are preparing to use electronic medical record (EMR) systems to document all health care interactions and the M-3 is the first validated application to use EMR technology developed for mental health care.????

About M-3 Information: The M-3 Checklist was developed by M-3 Information, a team of mental health, strategic communications, and information management experts, including Robert M. Post, MD, head of the Bipolar Collaborative Network; Bernard M. Snyder, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University and a cognitive behavioral therapist; Michael L. Byer, director of M-3 Information; Barry Rush, a media expert, Larry Culpepper, MD, family practice program at Boston University; Gerald Hurowitz, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a clinical psychopharmacologist. Together, they make available for free the M-3 Checklist, a private screener available at http://www.mymoodmonitor.com, and the depressioncheck app. M-3 Information is independently funded and has not received pharmaceutical industry support.

About Barry Rush: Barry is a outdoor media executive with an interest in social solutions that help the Hispanic community. For the last five years he has supported the development of the Spanish language version of the mymoodmonitor.com and the planned Spanish version of the applications at the Apple and Droid apps.

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Get out Your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Mac or PC, and Download This Coming-of-age Story Straight From the Sand Dunes of Cape Cod

July 10, 2012     No comments

(PRWEB) March 30, 2011

Searching for Hawaii: A Cape Cod Story, is set in 1976 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Fifteen-year-old Gail Wilson finds friendship, love, and tragedy during the course of one summer. Over those ten weeks, Gail matures as she falls in love, experiences the death of a great friend, and comes to terms with who she is in her family and in the world. Gail’s relationships with her parents, siblings, and friends are sarcastic, funny, and touching. A novel for older teens and baby boomers, as well as anyone who wants to relive teenage years in the 1970s!

Can find this at amazon.com for $ 2.99

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Excerpt from, Searching for Hawaii; A Cape Cod Story –

Chapter 9 OC Gail

I have been an organized, obsessive compulsive person my entire life. I know I need to let go a little and relax. For instance, at home in my room there is a final resting place for everything. Many items like my tennis racquet, my hairbrush, and my photo album hang on my wall with a marker outline around them. Sort of like a crime scene for my everyday objects. When a newcomer enters my room, it never fails that they look at me for signs of a mental breakdown. I can see them thinking, ?Should I remain here, with this weirdo??

My friend Susan thinks I am destined to become the next Columbo or Mannix, a detective drawing lines around dead bodies. ?Gail,? she said once, ?they even let detectives make lists!?

I make lists in my notebook of what I need to accomplish each day. I make a weekly list on Sunday, then break it down each night before I go to bed for the next day. If I don?t do this, I will not sleep well at all. I am so obsessed with this list that if I do something that is not on it, I actually go back, write in the new task, and then cross it off! How neurotic can I get? I wonder if I am heading for the 12-step program for the unendingly organized.

Mom and Dad say that these are quality traits for leading a successful life. What they are really thinking is, ?Where the hell did she come from?? My dad?s workshop looks like a scene from Earthquake and he is Charlton Heston trying to rescue his one useful tool, his crowbar, from the grips of disorder and decay. Mom, whose idea of organizing is to decipher which pile of crap this or that item belongs to by categories only a mystic could unravel, is constantly misplacing things?go figure.

Maybe I am a product of a contrary life. I probably have ancestors who were in the military or butlers or plumbers! I am a work in progress and being on the Cape definitely helps. Here, I only make the daily list and the Sunday list is history. Also, having to share a room certainly makes me think twice before organizing everything in the Columbo fashion.

Diane would never put up with my obsessive nonsense in our room, but I am discovering my brother is more like me than I thought. It feels great to have something in common with someone in this family. Putting some laundry away in Mark?s room, I am surprised at his organizational skills when it comes to his license plate project. He is lying on his bed reading a comic. ?Hey squirt, how?s the license plate business??

Popping up like a jack-in-the-box, Mark lands right in front of his wall map. ?Look Gail, 23 already!?

?When did you get New Mexico??

Tapping his foot and folding his arms across his chest he spouts, ?Too easy, day three.?

?Day three? Are you keeping track of which plates you get on which days??

?Yup.? Mark pulls out a calendar and on several squares I notice the names of states. Cool.

Messing up his hair, I pronounce, ?Good job buddy, keep up the good work.? At that, my little brother prances back to his comic.

About Sally

Sally is a New Englander. She writes from her home in New Hampshire where she publishes a weekly blog, musings really, on connections from her life to her writing life. She is a novelist and freelancer as well, but prefers the world of fiction to anything she may discover in the real world.

Sally worked with her critique group to publish an anthology, an eclectic mix of forms titled, Writing with Class. Of this she says, ?It?s a collection of stories that will have you laughing out loud, reminiscing, and wiping away tears. It?s entertaining and inspiring.?

Having grown up in Massachusetts, she has lived in Vermont, Arizona, New Hampshire, and soon, Maine. Please visit and respond to Sally at her blog site http://www.sallylucywrites.com

Writing with Class, Sally L. Wright, Helen P. Bridge, Jenny Menning, Susan joy Bellevance, Trudy Cohen, Roberta Baldwin Stoneman, Joan Chandler, with Deb McKew, Editor

To find out more about the author: http://www.sallylucywrites.com

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The IScan My Food App — A New IPhone App For Better Health

June 10, 2012     No comments


San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2010

iQ Advanced of San Diego, CA is announcing the release of iScan My Food?an iPhone app developed for scanning food ingredients and containing information on harmful food additives, toxic ingredients in food and genetically modified foods. The app allows the consumers to scan the ingredients on packaging and track food additives in the food and beverages purchased every day at the supermarket.

iScanMyFood is not a bar code reader, rather it is an OCR (optical character reader) using advanced technology from ABBYY USA. The iPhone camera is used to photograph the ingredients found on the package of a food item or cosmetic product, then the photo is converted into text and processed through a proprietary software which pulls matching additives from a database and presents them to the end user as results. These results can then be named and saved in a personal database and also emailed for further research. The advantage of scanning the ingredients is that the consumers can get all the packing information, while bar codes are not required to do so, rarely offer the full list of ingredients, and cannot produce results on freshly baked goods packaging.?

The app also helps find harmful ingredients in baby foods, cosmetics and pet food, including dog food, cat food, and animal feed for farm animals: horses, cows, cattle, pigs, poultry. iScan My Food offers information on genetically modified foods, (GMO s) their derivatives and enzymes widely spread in the food supply: maltodextrin, soy lecitin, high fructose corn syrup, and others. With the growing concern of obesity, diabetes, cancer, infertility, food allergies, skin allergies, gout, hormonal imbalances, autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, migraine headaches and others, the app enables the consumers to gain understanding of the long term side effects of chemicals, toxic food coloring (dyes) and preservatives on their health. Some of the additives derived from GMOs lack enough studies to show what the long-term outcome would be as a result of consuming such foods. More than 3,000 substances can be added to foods for the purpose of preservation, coloring, texture, and enhancing flavor. They have been shown to affect the RNA, thyroid, and enzymes. Many lack sufficient study related to their long-term use as far as safety or toxicity.

There are two (2) versions of the iScan My Food iPhone app: a Lite version and a Pro version.

The Lite version has 524 E-number additives and offers the full benefits of scanning ingredients on food packaging and cosmetics.

The Pro version has over 3,000+ additives.

Consumers can scan various foods and cosmetic products, track the ingredients on packages, and instantly recognize through a visual color coding system of red, yellow, green, and gray whether the food ingredients and additives are potentially harmful, have a warning, or are accepted to be safe. For each of the ingredients, the app offers a description, a list of possible side effects, and past or current ban in some countries. The app allows the average consumer to make educated decisions about which foods and ingredients they want to accept in their diet. By using and studying the information on food additives–name description and possible side effects offered by the iScan My Food app– consumers and their families can become healthier shoppers. Another benefit of the app is that it allows users to share their scanned food records with anyone they want to caution or inform about a product, as many additives can cause an allergic reaction in some individuals. After scanning a food item, the consumer can save the name of a product of interest into a personal database, which is one of the features of this app. As there are many additives with similar names, the OCR may produce a result that is a close but not the exact match. In this case the user has the options of adding or deleting an ingredient by using the plus or minus (Add or Delete) features. The scanning process is done correctly only when the user holds the iPhone horizontally (landscape) during scanning. An OCR scan will not be produced when the iPhone camera is held parallel to the ground (see our video tutorial on iscanmyfood.com to learn how to produce a good scan).

Users and scientific researchers can save findings to the app’s database and email results to themselves or to colleagues for further research. Additionally the app results provide links to HarmfulAdditives.com with photos and in-depth related information, Web links, Blog postings and News Feeds about food and chemical? additives.

The app allows the consumers worldwide to submit additional additives or ingredients found in their food products, which will be added to a following update, as additives are constantly being developed and added to foods and cosmetics.

IQ Advanced has developed iScan My Food iPhone app scanner to be available for private labeling through our Partner Program. Companies looking to raise awareness about food additives now have a great opportunity to privately label the app and use it as a health, marketing, and branding benefit. For further information, contact us directly by email or phone listed to the right.

Get the iScanMyFood Pro app at iTunes click here

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My Pain Diary: Chronic Pain Management v1.990 for iPhone Now Available

June 09, 2012     No comments


Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) May 31, 2012

My Pain Diary: Chronic Pain Management (MPD) is used by thousands of patients and e-Patients around the world to track and manage a variety of chronic conditions such as: migraines, fibromyalgia, back pain, depression, allergies and more.

MPD takes the traditional practice of documenting the severity and frequency of one’s pain and marries it with the iPhone, taking full advantage of the technology therein.

The latest update adds several new features.

The new ‘Color Flags’ feature acts as categories for the patient’s entries. This allows users to easily track multiple conditions. Over 60% of users currently track multiple chronic conditions with MPD, so this is likely to be a popular addition.

The calendar, graph, and doctor?s report can be filtered by Color Flags, giving the patient and the doctor a more concise view of the data. No longer will the rheumatologist have to sort through headache entries.

MPD comes with a pretty good pain scale with descriptions. However, pain is personal and no matter how good a scale is, it can?t be suitable for everyone. Therefore, users can now edit the pain scale descriptions to suit their needs. Patients should consult with their doctors and set up the pain scale in a way that makes sense for them.

Another new feature is private entries. Private entries won?t appear on doctor?s reports.

As is typical, this update comes with performance and interface improvements as well.

ABOUT MY PAIN DIARY: CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

MPD was created to help patients track chronic pain, document triggers and remedies, and report the data to healthcare professionals. Created and actively maintained by a chronic pain sufferer, My Pain Diary for iOS simplifies the process of keeping a pain diary and communicating the information with healthcare professionals.

ABOUT DAMON LYNN

‘a damon lynn app’ is the moniker for apps developed by, you guessed it, Damon Lynn. Damon has been involved in interactive media for the last decade. Before falling for the iPhone, Damon built a successful career in web design & development, Flash development, multimedia production and entrepreneurial innovationism. When Damon is not hard at work improving My Pain Diary, he is spending time with his family, developing casual games, and making up words like ?innovationism?.

Visit ChronicPainApp.com for a full list of features, the User Guide, and more.

Media Kit: http://chronicpainapp.com/media.php







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iPromises Recovery Companion, a Free Sobriety iPhone App, Reaches 20,000 Downloads

June 04, 2012     No comments

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 16, 2011

This week Promises Treatment Centers and Elements Behavioral Health announced that the iPromises Recovery Companion, a free sobriety application that provides tools and support for those in addiction recovery, reached 20,000 downloads.

The iPromises app features daily reflections, a calendar to help users keep track of their 12-Step meetings, and a tool that lets users monitor their moods and relapse triggers. Just nine months after its release, the app reached 10,000 downloads in March 2011. It was also featured in the December 2010/January 2011 edition of Inc. Magazine?s ?App Time.?

?We are thrilled that this free app has been so helpful to the recovery community,? said David Sack, CEO of Promises Treatment Centers and its parent company, Elements Behavioral Health. ?Helping people avoid relapse has always been a top priority for Promises. Particularly around the holidays, when stress runs high, we hope the recovery community finds the iPromises app to be an effective relapse prevention tool.?

Since its launch in June 2010, the iPromises app has garnered over 180 reviews on iTunes, maintaining a four-star average. One user wrote, ?Great app – have recommended to all my clients – great sections, contacts, etc. Highly recommend to anyone in recovery or those who simply like to stay on top of their moods and want a place to record their thoughts.?

Another said, ?Gotta have it! I can?t think of a better way to share meetings with my sponsees and give them a quick way to contact me if they are in crisis.?

Mobile technology is changing the way people live, communicate and even recover from the disease of addiction. In support of its commitment to give back to the community, Promises Treatment Centers has made an important contribution that has helped thousands of men and women maintain their sobriety.

?Downloads of the iPromises app are up this month, which hopefully means that people are putting all their tools in place for the upcoming holiday season,? said Vera Appleyard, the Vice President of Internet Marketing at Elements Behavioral Health. ?Rather than isolating themselves, which is characteristic of addiction, the iPromises app encourages users to reach out to their support network, especially during difficult times.?

iPromises is available for free download on iTunes. For more information about iPromises, visit http://ipromises.org.

About Promises Treatment Centers

Promises Treatment Centers in Malibu and West Los Angeles are the premier addiction treatment centers in southern California. Led by some of the country?s leading addiction specialists, Promises has built an international reputation for innovative addiction treatment and exceptional service. Whether an individual requires detox, residential drug rehab, outpatient treatment, extended care or a sober living environment, Promises has been the drug rehabilitation center of choice for more than 20 years. For more information about Promises Treatment Centers, visit http://www.promises.com or call 877-351-7506.

Promises is part of Elements Behavioral Health, a family of behavioral health care programs that includes The Ranch, The Sexual Recovery Institute and The Recovery Place. Elements offers comprehensive, innovative treatment for substance abuse, sexual addiction, trauma, eating disorders and other mental health disorders. We are committed to delivering clinically sophisticated treatment that promotes permanent lifestyle change, not only for the patient but for the entire family system. For more information about Elements Behavioral Health, visit http://www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com.

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omNovia Web Conference Mobile App Released for iPhone, iPad and Android Devices

May 11, 2012     No comments

Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 08, 2012

omNovia Technologies, a global leader in web conferencing, high quality webinar and HD video conferencing technology announced today the release of its Web Conference Mobile app for Apple iOS and Android devices. The new app allows anyone with a mobile device to not only view live webinars on the go but also participate via chat, polling and other interactive tools.

Given the prevalence of mobile technology, it is critical for companies offering online training or marketing webinars to appeal to the increasing number of mobile users by providing an engaging, media-rich and interactive experience. ?As a pioneer in the online financial education space, we are always seeking better technical solutions for our students. Our omNovia hosted trainings and webinars go beyond the traditional PowerPoint and audio presentations by mixing desktop sharing, live and pre-recorded videos. We are excited our students and prospects can now participate from anywhere with the same great experience on their mobile devices.? said Afshin Tagechian, CEO of Traders International, a company providing advanced financial training worldwide.

The omNovia Web Conference Mobile app, available in the Apple and Amazon App Stores as well as in the Google Play (former Android Market), supports a significant number of features such as chat, voice, polling, live video, PowerPoints with annotations, document sharing, white boards, desktop sharing, live notes and cobrowser.

Another remarkable feature of the mobile app is the support for movies, including YouTube videos. Using the omNovia Movie Player within the Web Conference platform, a presenter may play, pause and resume movies for all attendees in the virtual webinar room.

?The release of the omNovia Web Conference Mobile app is in line with our 100% focus on advancing the web conferencing technology. Unlike our competitors? apps that support a subset of their PC features, our app offers a complete solution for mobile users in an easy-to-use, interactive environment?, said Shawn Shadfar, founder and CEO of omNovia Technologies.

More information about the omNovia Web Conference Mobile app is available at http://www.omnovia.com/omnovia-web-conference-for-mobile-ios-and-android.html including an introductory movie.

About omNovia Technologies

omNovia Technologies is a leading global provider of online meetings, high-quality webinars, engaging online trainings and live event webcasting solutions for small business meetings and large-scale enterprise conferences. omNovia?s high-quality web conferencing platform offers the best online meeting experience with a unique capacity of 5,000 simultaneous participants in an interactive web-based environment. omNovia?s live event webcasting solution, StageToWeb, provides HD live-video streaming, integrated voice and interactive tools. omNovia?s unique Recast feature enables replays of recorded events in a fully interactive environment.





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