News > 2008 > November

An new law has recently been passed in the USA requiring health insurance companies to give equal treatment to people with 'physical' and 'mental' illness. This addresses a gross inequality which has been campaigned for over a long period... An unexpected birthplace for anti-discrimination law about mental illness

Equilibrium - the bipolar foundation are working together with researchers at top international centers in the UK and USA to help establish the genes involved in making some individuals more vulnerable to bipolar disorder than others and how they interact with environmental factors.In the first 48 hours of the announcement more than 400 people contacted us to participate in this program.