‘Even a brief, low-cost mail-based intervention can help ease symptoms of mild depression, a new study finds.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, included 177 college students with depression. A week after being assessed, half the students received the intervention, which included a personalized “feedback letter” outlining each student’s depression situation. […]
‘Depression triples the likelihood that a nursing home resident with dementia will be physically aggressive, a new study shows.
Delusions, hallucinations and constipation also appeared to be risk factors for physical aggression in these patients, Dr. Ralph Leonard of CALM-MD, LLC, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota and colleagues from Yale Medical School found.
About 7 percent of […]
‘Among patients having symptoms of a heart attack, the predictors detected before hospital admission differ between men and women, according to results of a study by investigators in Sweden, published in the International Journal of Cardiology.
Dr. Johan Herlitz, of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, and colleagues conducted a study involving 433 patients (45 percent women) who […]
‘ Twelve-year-old Barek Ahmed has been diagnosed as clinically depressed after his family was displaced by violence two months ago. Now living with his relatives in Baghdad, the boy laments the fact that he has left his school and friends behind, and will not be able to join a new school in the capital because […]
‘As many as half of all people hospitalized for surgery or other procedures to treat blocked heart arteries develop depression, according to a report in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
Doctors believe the depression is brought on by the mental stress of facing serious illness, or perhaps by microscopic damage done to the brain […]
‘Depression among youth is a growing public health concern, affecting one to two percent of elementary school-aged children and three to eight percent of adolescents.
To determine what programs are effective in preventing depressive symptoms, researchers from Vanderbilt University conducted a meta-analysis of the last 20 years of research on interventions aimed at preventing depressive symptoms […]
‘More than 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental disorder — most commonly a depressive disorder or a substance abuse disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Police announced last week that philanthropist and publisher Philip Merrill shot himself aboard his boat on the Chesapeake Bay. In a statement released […]
‘Rural men suffering depression will be given a helping hand with a national helpline to be launched on Wednesday.
beyondblue chairman Jeff Kennett, whose organisation raises awareness of depression, said a national hotline would be launched and trialled for six months.
The trial is aimed at helping men in rural areas, who tend to suffer most from […]
‘Almost 35.2 per cent of schoolchildren in the UAE felt depressed almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that they stopped their usual activities, according to a survey conducted by the UAE Ministry of Health for the Global School-based Health Survey held last year.
Even more worrisome was that a large percentage […]
‘University of Queensland researchers are offering Australians in rural areas treatment to get off the “depression roundabout”.
Forty volunteers are needed from regional areas by the end of July. They will be part of a national research project that could result in a new and convenient treatment for depression.
Chief investigator Professor David Kavanagh said the project […]