More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. While AA participants are reportedly notorious for their coffee drinking and cigarette smoking, very little research has quantified their consumption of these two products. Recent findings confirm that coffee and cigarette use among this population is greater than among the general U.S. population: most AA members Read more…
The lack of support for women suffering from postnatal depression - and the reduction in the health visiting service supporting those mothers - have been highlighted with the publication of a hard-hitting report into maternity services.
Unite/Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association raised its continuing concerns in this area as the Healthcare Commission issued its report saying that some NHS trusts could do more to make Read more…
Senate Democrats on Monday failed to advance legislation (S 3297) that combined 34 bills that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has blocked, CQ Today reports. The package included disease specific research measures, environmental protection legislation and measures aimed at bolstering foreign economies. Language from a measure (S 1375) that would encourage the study and treatment of postpartum depression was included in the package.
The Senate voted 52-40 Read more…
Buy levitra without prescription Researchers examined the levels of post traumatic stress reactivity (PTSR) of over 20,000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia. The findings are from the first Read more…
Virginia Commonwealth University is part of an international research team that received a Wellcome Trust Foundation grant totaling more than $2.8 million to identify the genetic variants that have an impact on the risk for recurrent major depression.
The goal of the five-year project, a collaboration between researchers based at the University of Oxford in England, VCU in the United States, and Fudan University in Shanghai, China, is to identify genetic Read more…
Prescriptions filled for antidepressant drugs increased from 154 million in 2002 to 170 million in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Among the prescriptions (not including refills) which were written after patients talked with doctors in-person or over the phone. AHRQ Read more…
A team of Scottish researchers have shown that cancer patients offered a depression care intervention - delivered by specially trained oncology nurses with no previous psychiatric experience - showed improvements in symptoms of depression compared to patients offered usual care. The beneficial effects of the "Depression Care for People with Cancer" package (DCPC) were found to be sustained at 12 months follow-up, Read more…
New data from a study of patients with treatment-resistant depression who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subcallosal cingulate region (SCG or Cg25) of the brain shows that this intervention is generally safe and provides significant improvement in patients as early as one month Read more…
The Health Department today announced a new online campaign to engage teenagers grappling with depression, drugs, and violence, and to encourage them to seek help. NYC Teen Mindspace, posted on MySpace, is Read more…
Patients suffering from major depression are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, but treating these patients with medication can greatly reduce the risk, according to new findings by researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The results of their study Read more…
Decision Resources, one of the
world’s leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and
healthcare issues, finds that a drug’s long-term efficacy in preventing
recurrence of depressive mood episodes in patients who suffer from major
depressive disorder, is the attribute that most influences psychiatrists’
prescribing decisions in the treatment of this disorder. Read more…
A new Mayo Clinic study shows that variations in the serotonin transporter gene could explain why some people with depression respond better than others to treatment with citalopram (Celexa), an antidepressant medication.
The study, in the current issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, examined the serotonin transporter gene, or SLC6A4, in 1,914 Read more…
People who have had a stroke and the people who are close to them need more support in order to manage the consequences of stroke. As well as the physical disabilities, the psychological burden is difficult to cope with. It is not only stroke patients who become depressed: their friends and relatives often become depressed too. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) Read more…
Depression is the most important single factor predisposing to suicide, and more than half of all subjects completing suicide are known to have suffered from depression. Unfortunately, depression is still often untreated or undertreated, even after a suicide attempt. generic lexapro online buy Antidepressive drugs represent Read more…
Scientific evidence has long suggested that moderate drinking offers some protection against heart disease, certain types of stroke and some forms of cancer.
But new research shows that stopping drinking - including at moderate levels - may lead to health problems including depression and a reduced capacity of the brain to produce new neurons, a process called neurogenesis.
The findings from Read more…
A single antidepressant tablet makes a depressed person see the world in a more positive light just four hours after swallowing it, a new study has shown.
Dr Philip Cowen, professor of pharmacology at the Department of Psychiatry at the Read more…
A new treatment programme for cancer patients with clinical depression can significantly boost their quality of life according to new research published in the Lancet.
Cancer Research UK scientists devised the treatment programme which offers Read more…
An article published in The Lancet finds that
cancer patients who received a care package called "Depression Care for
People with Cancer" (DCPC) had lower levels of depression than those
who received the usual care (antidepressants and mental health services
recommended by the cancer team). Professor Michael Sharpe (University
of Edinburgh, UK) and other Read more…
Major depressive disorder is a common and complex condition that impacts about 15% of the population of the United States, yet very little is known about the mechanisms behind the psychiatric disorder. What is known is that there are clinical parallels between depressive symptoms and the symptoms of certain inflammatory disorders.
In findings published electronically Read more…
Infants and toddlers whose mothers are severely depressed are almost three times more likely to suffer accidental injuries than other children in the same age group, according to a new study. The study’s findings, published in the Advanced Access edition of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, suggest that proper treatment for depression would improve not only the Read more…
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Having intercourse more often may help prevent the development of erectile dysfunction (ED). generic synthroid online buy A study published in the July 2008 issue of The American Journal of Medicine reports that researchers have found that men who had intercourse more often were Read more…
High blood pressure and high cholesterol levels appear to be risk factors for retinal vein occlusion, a condition that causes vision loss, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one Read more…
Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is a gas most commonly associated with the smell of stink bombs, sewage and rotten eggs, but a team of researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England and King’s College London have now identified a role for this gas in regulating blood pressure, according to research published in the leading science journal Circulation.
The research team has previously Read more…
New findings from research supported by NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health research, and conducted by scientists at Washington University’s School of Medicine (WUSM) now point to new options for treating preschool-aged children with significant clinical depression as well as those severely depressed adults who don’t respond to standard treatments, such Read more…
By doing tests on mice fed on a calorie restricted diet, US researchers have discovered that ghrelin, a hormone that increases when people
don’t eat, may defend against symptoms of depression or anxiety brought on by stress.
The research is the work of scientists led Read more…