‘Depression is a more disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, World Health Organization research shows.
And those with depression plus a chronic illness, such as diabetes, fare particularly badly, the study of more than 245,000 people suggests.
Better treatment for depression would improve people’s overall health, the researchers concluded in the Lancet.
Experts called for […]
‘A pin prick could hold the cure for depression, Sydney researchers believe. The University of Technology Sydney is studying whether acupuncture can be used as an effective treatment for clinical depression.
The trial aims to increase the understanding of how acupuncture can be used in combination with drug therapy to treat depression.
If successful, it may also […]
‘A patient with depression may find it harder to recover his/her heart rate variability after a heart attack, increasing his/her chances of coronary death. Patients who are successfully treated for depression tend to experience improvement in heart rate variability after acute coronary syndromes, compared to depressed patient’s who aren’t (treated for depression), says an article […]
‘An international alliance of specialists in mental health is launching a campaign today to shift the focus of the world’s attention from disorders of the body to disorders of the mind.
Some 30 per cent of the world’s population suffer some form of mental disorder each year, yet at least two-thirds receive inadequate or no treatment, […]
‘Scientists are casting a wide net to find better treatments for the crushing depression and uncontrolled manias of bipolar disorder, and some approaches they’re testing seem pretty surprising.
Like skin patches that prevent seasickness. Or a drug that fights Lou Gehrig’s disease. And then there’s a newly invented device that resembles a hair dryer in a […]
‘It cannot be assumed that an antidepressant has lost its effectiveness if a patient relapses while continuing on the medication, because the medication may never have been effective in the first place, according to study findings reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
In the study, the majority of relapses occurred in […]