2 February

You and Yours

College media expert Dr Deenesh Khoosal joins the discussion on assisted dying.

3 February

Widespread coverage in UK and overseas

BJPsych press release: Pupils with top grades ‘four times more likely to develop bipolar disorder’

Story picked up by: Daily Mail, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, Irish Examiner, Irish Herald, Ballymena Times, Limerick Leader, Londonderry Sentinel, Northampton Chronicle, New Scientist, BBC World Service – Newshour, Austrian Radio FM4, Toronto Star and many others.

e.g. New Scientist

3 February

Extensive coverage in UK, Australia and rest of the world

BJPsych Press Release: Pregnant women should stop believing the 'baby brain' myth

Story picked up by: BBC News Online, GMTV, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Australian, ABC (Australia), Adelaide Advertiser, Ballarat Courier, Brisbane Times, Border Mail, Canberra Times, Marlborough Express, Maitland Mercury, Newcastle Herald, Sky News Australia, Sun Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, West Australian, New Zealand Herald, Indian Express, The Hindu, Ask-a-Mum, and many radio and TV stations in the UK and Australia.

e.g. BBC News Online

4 February

Coverage across the UK

RCPsych press release: ADHD may help creative genius to flourish, says psychiatrist

Story picked up by: BBC News Online, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Metro, Belfast Telegraph, The Scotsman, Irish Medical Times and many others.

e.g. Daily Mail

End 'shameful' locking up of children - Yorkshire Bishop

A Yorkshire bishop has called for an end to Britain's imprisonment of the children of asylum seekers. “With the Children's Commissioner, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of General Practitioners, the Children Society and many other bodies concerned with the wellbeing of children, I believe the continued incarceration of children to be a shameful practice for our society in terms of child welfare and human rights and must stop."

BBC News Online

Story also covered by: BBC Northern Ireland Breakfast, Radio Ulster, Irish News and others

Warning over NI mental health service 'cuts'

Money saved from closing mental health beds in hospitals is not not all being ploughed back into community-based services, a psychiatrist has claimed. Dr Philip McGarry from the Royal College of Psychiatrists was speaking ahead of a mental health conference due to open in Belfast later on Friday.

Letter to the editor: Detention of children

The Archbishop of Wales and 12 co-signatories pen letter calling for the end of detention of children in immigration removal centres, citing the RCPsych’s joint report published in December 2009.

How meow meow nearly destroyed me

Psychiatrist Dr Ken Checinski explains the side effects of 'legal high' mephedrone.

Extensive coverage across the UK and overseas

Plus an Early Day Motion tabled in Parliament by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson

RCPsych press release: Psychiatrists call for new 'editorial code' to end media promotion of a thin body ideal

Story picked up by: Evening Standard,

BBC News Online, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, Irish Examiner, Irish News, Hospital Dr, Campaign Marketing Week, PR Week, New York Daily News, and many others in UK and overseas.

e.g. BBC News Online