‘Depression appears to further increase the likelihood that girls with anorexia will develop the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, according to a report from Australia.
Individually, both anorexia and depression have been linked to osteoporosis. This led Dr. Jerzy Konstantynowicz, from The University of Melbourne and colleagues to think that perhaps that the presence of both disorders would […]
‘Medication should not be readily dished out to children and young people with depression, say experts.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has ruled drugs should be considered only in moderate or severe cases.
The NHS drug watchdog said young people should first be offered a course of psychological therapy lasting for at least […]
‘People with a history of panic disorder may have a higher risk of developing heart disease, particularly if they’ve also suffered from depression, a new study suggests.
Using medical records from a U.S. health insurance database, researchers found that adults who had been diagnosed with panic disorder were nearly twice as likely as those without the […]
‘Drugs should not be given to depressed children as the initial treatment, the Government’s medicine watchdog says today. The advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) follows safety fears about antidepressants which have been linked with an increased risk of suicide.
At least 40,000 children and young people, aged from five to […]
‘The correlation between pathological gambling and major depression in middle-aged men appears to be heavily influenced by overlapping genetic factors, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Washington University’s School of Medicine.
The lead author, Marc Potenza, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, said future research is needed to […]
‘The American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of doctors of internal medicine, is encouraging members to screen patients for anxiety and depression as part of a national mental health screening effort on October 6.
ACP is partnering with Screening for Mental Health (SMH) on behalf of the 2005 NDSD Mental Health Screening program, also […]
‘Two-thirds of Irish people would not inform their employer if they were diagnosed with depression or any other mental health illness, according to a new poll from irishhealth.com.
A recent survey from depression support group, Aware, revealed that Irish workplaces are less tolerant of mental health problems today, compared to 10 years ago.
According to the survey, […]
‘No one knows the precise mechanism that triggers clinical depression, but people have speculated about it for centuries. From the time of the ancient Greeks until well into the Renaissance, philosophers and scientists believed that bodily fluids called humors were responsible for our moods and personality. Specifically, they thought that one called black bile controlled […]
‘”Downward mobility,” or a drop in economic and social class, quadruples the risk of depression in middle-aged men but doesn’t have the same kind of impact on women of the same age, British researchers say.
Reporting in the current issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne […]
‘Weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of thousands of people, many are finding it harder to cope now than immediately after the storm.
Mental health experts say it’s the same phenomenon that’s played out after any other traumatic event.
The adrenaline rush that came with surviving the hurricane is now gone. The adventure is over, but […]