Doctors often miss depression in pregnancy

LONDON - Health experts have sent out a strong warning saying that doctors and midwives should be more alert for signs of depression in pregnant women and new mothers.
From: www.earthtimes.org

Appearance concerns related to depression in patients with rheumatic disease

Patients with rheumatic disease can experience physical deformities, especially of the hands and feet in the case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or skin rashes and lesions and hand deformity in the case of systemic lupus erthyematosus.
From: www.eurekalert.org

Mouse Study Sheds Light on Lupus-Linked Depression

TUESDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- An auto-antibody called "anti-ribosomal P" plays a role in central nervous dysfunction and depression in people with lupus, an autoimmune disease...
From: www.kold.com

Stocker Cattle Forum: Developing A Rational Treatment Program

Any time that you are dealing with calves that are co-mingled in sale barns and hauled long distances, you are going to be faced with developing a treatment program.
From: www.cattlenetwork.com

New insights into autoimmunity and depression

Systemic lupus erythomatosus (SLE), often simply called lupus, is a complex autoimmune disease marked by joint pain, skin rashes, extreme fatigue, and depression, among other symptoms.
From: www.eurekalert.org

Depression increases health risks in heart failure patients

DURHAM, N.C. -- Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes for patients with heart failure, ranking it in importance with such risk factors as high cholesterol, hypertension, and even the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
From: www.eurekalert.org

Growing Neuromodulation Market Shows Staying Power

Neuromodulation therapies are changing the way chronic diseases are treated, according to a panel of experts. These implantable devices are now being used for treatment of chronic pain, spasticity, and movement disorders such as Parkinson?s disease.
From: www.devicelink.com

Depression linked to worse medical outcomes

Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes for patients with heart failure, ranking it in importance with such risk factors as high cholesterol, hypertension and even the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
From: www.heraldsun.com

Valeant Pharmaceuticals Files Investigational Drug Application For Cesamet In Cancer Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathic ...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International recently announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Cesamet (CII) (nabilone) oral capsules for the treatment of cancer chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain
From: www.drugdiscoveryonline.com

Repressed Memory May Be New

In unusual study, psychiatrists and scholars argue that syndrome is a 19th-century Western creation.
From: www.washingtonpost.com

Detained but not deterred U.S. Army veteran endured harsh treatment in 18-month ordeal

For a year and a half, Luis Mejia, a U.S. Army veteran and permanent resident for nearly two decades, was held by immigration officials who were trying to deport him to Honduras, his native country.
From: www.stamfordadvocate.com

At The Worcester Train Station, A Tribute to A Great President

Mention FDR, and most people talk about the Great Depression, the New Deal and fireside chats.
From: www.courant.com

Celebritology Live

When Britney left K-Fed, when Jen and Vince broke up (and broke up again), when Mel Gibson self-destructed on a California highway, washingtonpost.com Celebritology Liz Kelly was here to pass along the buzz, offer some perspective, provide crucial links to juicy alternate news sources and, of course, take your reaction.
From: www.washingtonpost.com

Exercise for Cancer Patients: Fitness after Treatment

Surviving cancer and making it through cancer treatment are major accomplishments. Most, if not all, survivors find a new priority in life: keeping cancer from returning. The latest research suggests that exercise for cancer patients may help.
From: www.webmd.com

Act aims to close mental health coverage gap

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Mental health and alcohol treatment costs for Suzanne Aubry?s daughter have drained her family?s nest egg, costing them thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses each year due to limits placed on their insurance coverage.
From: www.examiner.com

Act aims to close coverage gap

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Mental health and alcohol treatment costs for Suzanne Aubry?s daughter have drained her family?s nest egg, costing them thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses each year due to limits placed on their insurance coverage.
From: www.examiner.com

Study confirms stages of grief

Longing for a loved one is found to be a bigger factor than depression -- a finding that could help in treatment. CHICAGO ? Accepted wisdom says that when a loved one dies, people go through five stages of grieving: disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and acceptance.
From: www.latimes.com

Hospitals Awarded Grant for Depression Studies

By B, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Feb. 20--WALSENBURG -- Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center has been awarded $85,000 to educate physicians on depression.
From: www.redorbit.com

Consultant says employees, dependants use hospital too much

St. Croix County provides its employees with "rich" health insurance benefits, and significantly more employees and dependants get treatment for conditions such as obesity and depression than would be expected, reported a consultant last week.
From: www.rivertowns.net

Stone Age solutions A University of Kansas psychologist has Stone Age solutions to depression

To confront the country?s growing depression epidemic, a modern phenomenon, psychologist Steve Ilardi peered backward into human history.
From: www.kansascity.com

Should You Tell?

If you have depression or some other mental illness, what do you do about work? Hope no one notices? Disclose your illness early on and trust that your boss will understand?
From: www.washingtonpost.com

Garrett Reid enters drug-treatment program

| The oldest son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid has entered a drug-treatment program amid charges he injured a woman in a traffic accident while under the influence of heroin.
From: www.mcall.com

Patients get wrong drugs online

Patients ordering drugs online for depression and insomnia instead received schizophrenia medication that caused them to seek emergency medical treatment for breathing problems, the Food and Drug Administration learned yesterday.
From: www.washingtontimes.com

Little evidence omega-3 helps depression

Despite observations linking depression with reduced intake of omega-3 fatty acids, there is no convincing evidence it is helpful, says a British review.
From: www.earthtimes.org

Women and Depression

Life is full of emotional ups and downs. But when the "down" times are long lasting or interfere with your ability to function, you may be suffering from a common, serious illness?depression.
From: www.walkermn.com

Study Closes In On Genes That May Predispose Some People To Severe Depression

Some people appear to be genetically predisposed to developing severe depression, but researchers have yet to pin down the genes responsible. Now, a specific region rife with promise has been located on one chromosome by a consortium of researchers working under Douglas Levinson, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
From: www.sciencedaily.com

The invisible effects of mild concussions

Even a mild concussion may leave disturbing symptoms months later: fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating, memory problems and sometimes depression.
From: www.iht.com

There is little evidence to back omega-3 fatty acids as a depression treatment --- HealthandAge

Review shows that omega-3 fatty acids on their own are unlikely to cure depression. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in fish oils and seem to have a protective effect against heart disease. It has also been suggested that they may be effective against depression by changing mood and behavior.
From: www.healthandage.com

Little Convincing Evidence That Omega-3 Combats Depression

There is no convincing evidence that taking omega-3 fatty acids on their own can alleviate depression, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
From: www.newswise.com

Fifth Annual Conference On College Depression

Every year, more than a thousand college students die by suicide, and thousands more attempt to kill themselves. Tens of thousands of other students struggle with depression, bipolar disorder and related problems such as addiction, prescription drug and alcohol abuse, anorexia and bulimia, and self-mutilation or "cutting". [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

A Simple Test Distinguishes Between Bipolar Disorder And Depression

Type II bipolar disorder is an underdiagnosed disease which can be easily confused with depression. Contrarily to what happens in type I bipolar disorder, depressive symptoms and, above all, manic symptoms alternated in this form of the disease are not evident and difficult to identify. [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Deadly depression

Suicides account for at least as many deaths as homicides do in Hampton Roads, even though help is available. While murders make headlines with disturbing regularity in Hampton Roads, an equally deadly danger hides in the shadows out of public view: suicide.
From: www.dailypress.com

Vitamin B-12 and depression: Are they related?

Doctors have long known of the relationship between low levels of vitamin B-12 and depression. Vitamin B-12 and other B vitamins, such as folate, play a role in the production of certain neurotransmitters, which are important in regulating mood and other brain functions.
From: www.mayoclinic.com

Psychiatrist stands by Shaik diagnosis

The Durban psychiatrist treating Schabir Shaik believes the convicted fraudster is a danger to himself and has recommended that he remain in hospital to receive treatment for hypertension, depression and anxiety.
From: www.iol.co.za

A Woman?s Despair, a Young Doctor?s Bewilderment

In the 1950s, medical school taught little about depression, and never emphasized that suicide was a common result.
From: www.nytimes.com

Heather Wokusch: Let?s Go Crazy; The Decline in US Mental Health under Bush

2007-02-12 | Factors linked with mental illness (including poverty, homelessness, violence and social uncertainty) have run rampant during the Bush years while psychiatric treatment options have disappeared.
From: www.unobserver.com

Electroconvulsive therapy can work in depression --- HealthandAge

For people with severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy still has an important role to play, accoding to a Harvard doctors. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) involves passing an electric current through the brain to induce a seizure and it has long been used as a treatment for depression.
From: www.healthandage.com

Extra cortisol can lessen the impact of stress among women --- HealthandAge

Women can be protected from stress by cortisol hormone, according to a new study. Cortisol is a stress hormone and its effect on the body can give rise to various chronic health problems, such as heart disease and depression.
From: www.healthandage.com

The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Sometimes when people feel sad, they say they are ?depressed.? But depression is more than just feeling sad. Sleeping problems, persistent sadness, forgetfulness, withdrawing from friends-all these behaviors and feelings are often accepted behaviors for older adults.
From: www.fergusfallsjournal.com

Special K: Ketamine breakthrough in treating depression

Ketamine is the fastest growing drug on the dance scene, the chemical of choice for tens of thousands of clubbers.
From: news.independent.co.uk

Novel Radiofrequency Treatment Shows Promise For Lumbar Pain

Intradiscal biacuplasty is an effective procedure to treat chronic discogenic pain, report researchers at the 23rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in New Orleans. Improvement in pain scores and functional capacity can be observed much earlier with intradiscal biacuplasty than with intradiscal electrothermal therapy suggesting some additional or/and different mechanisms of ...
From: www.sciencedaily.com

Ranbaxy gets FDA nod to make depression drug

FDA approval permitted the company to manufacture and market its formulation for the treatment of major depressive disorders in adults.
From: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

High copper levels tied to postpartum depression

Women with a history of postpartum depression tend to have unusually high levels of copper in their blood, a new study has found -- suggesting the mineral may play some role in the disorder.
From: news.yahoo.com

Depression on Campus: Part Two

Earlier today, we brought you Part One of a shocking special series on college depression. Tonight, Action News reporter Amy Andrews digs deeper into the rising epidemic on local campuses to find out what administrators are doing to treat students suffering from this potentially deadly illness.
From: www.ksby.com

Harvard Doc Makes Case for Shock Therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy, or shock treatment, is the most effective therapy for severe depression, say U.S. clinicians.
From: www.redorbit.com

CMS Considers Medicare Coverage Of Drug-Coated Stents, Implantable Depression Treatment

CMS recently considered Medicare coverage of drug-coated stents and an implantable device as a treatment for depression. Summaries appear below.Drug-coated stents: CMS might reconsider a decision to allow broad Medicare coverage of drug-coated stents because of concerns that the devices can increase risk for blood clots, the Wall Street Journal reports. [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

The heart of the matter

After someone suffers a heart attack, perhaps the last thing he and his family are thinking about is getting treatment for a mental-health problem. But people who experience a first bout of depression after having a heart attack are at particular risk for future heart problems, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
From: www.courier-journal.com

Methamphetamine Update

Methamphetamine is widely acknowledged to be a hard drug to stop using. Methamphetamine addicts have relapses early in treatment, and chronic and persistent depression after they stop using the drug.
From: www.chicoer.com

Cyberonics shares dive; supporters speak up

Shares of Cyberonics dropped more than 10 percent Tuesday after the news that Medicare is tentatively refusing to cover the cost of using its device for treatment of severe depression.
From: www.chron.com

Tips on Beating Winter Depression

When winter hits, as many as 40 million Americans get the blues. Shorter days and less sunlight can throw off the body clock, affecting mood and sleep. Most experts believe light therapy is the best treatment.
From: www.wndu.com

Medicare rejects Cyberonics depression device

U.S. Medicare officials dealt the latest blow to troubled device maker Cyberonics Inc. on Monday by refusing to cover its implantable depression device, sending its shares down at least 11 percent in after-hours trading.
From: news.yahoo.com

Medicare Will Not Cover Nerve Device in Depression

Regulators who oversee Medicare said that they did not think it was reasonable to begin covering the implanted electrical stimulator to treat severe depression in patients who had failed with other therapies.
From: www.nytimes.com

U.S. Medicare rejects Cyberonics depression device

U.S. Medicare officials dealt the latest blow to troubled device maker Cyberonics Inc. on Monday by refusing to cover its implantable depression device, sending its shares down at least 11 percent in after-hours trading.
From: news.yahoo.com

Botswana: The Politics of Psychiatry

Mental disorders deserve special attention worldwide, annual investments in scientific research to cure devastating mental pathologies such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and clinical depression are huge - comparable to spending on finding a cure for any other disease.
From: allafrica.com

Could Extreme Irritability Be Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

Results of a new study may help improve the diagnosis and treatment of two debilitating childhood mental disorders -- pediatric bipolar disorder (BD) and a syndrome called severe mood dysregulation (SMD). [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Search For Genes That May Predispose Some People To Severe Depression

Some people appear to be genetically predisposed to developing severe depression, but researchers have yet to pin down the genes responsible. Now, a specific region rife with promise has been located on one chromosome by a consortium of researchers working under Douglas Levinson, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. [click link for ...
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Nigeria: Alamieyeseigha - Struggle to Live

Nobody cold actually believe that Alamieyeseigha would still be alive, even without the needed medical treatment. There have been pressures that if not flown abroad within a short period, then he could probably be snatched by the unkind cold fingers of death.
From: allafrica.com

Study seeks to ID depression genes

U.S. scientists say they might be close to identifying the gene or genes responsible for causing severe depression.The Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say some people appear to be genetically predisposed to developing severe depression, but scientists have yet to identify the genes responsible.Now Dr. Douglas Levinson, a professor of psychiatry, is leading a consortium of ...
From: it.moldova.org

Grieving, depression focus of discussion

Talk on loss, triggers of clinical depression part of John Hopkins symposium.
From: www.palmbeachdailynews.com

CDC Finds Increase in Teen Suicide; NYU Child Study Center Responds -- Identifies Warning Signs and Provides Tips for ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York University Child Study Center has identified warning signs of depression in teenagers for parents and tips for helping teens who may be depressed, in light of a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
From: www.redorbit.com

MEDIA CENTRE

A £200,000 pilot scheme, in which patients can receive complementary and alternative therapies as part of their NHS Treatment, has been launched today by the Secretary of State, Peter Hain MP.
From: www.nio.gov.uk

Feeling blah? Beat back the winter blues

For sufferers, January and February tend to be the months when this form of depression, clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), hits hardest. But thanks to years of research and numerous studies, there are several methods considered effective in treating SAD.
From: www.msnbc.msn.com

Veteran?s tailspin motivates effort to counsel others

Jim McGruder didn?t want to go on living last year. A Navy veteran, McGruder had suffered from depression all his life, and after watching his marriage of 40 years dissolve, the 63-year-old felt he couldn?t go on. He entered the veterans hospital in Knoxville, Iowa.
From: www.showmenews.com

Big-screen treatment for schizophrenia

When Tufts University professor Richard Lerner was seated next to actor Joe Pantoliano at a college football game last fall, the two had a lively conversation about a topic important to both of them: mental illness.
From: www.boston.com

Program helps Hispanic teens through depression

SAN ANTONIO -- It started last fall -- feelings of sadness, helplessness and anger as black as the clothing she wore to feel protected and conceal the cuts on her arm.
From: www.elpasotimes.com

Colleges reach out to prevent suicides

Not far into her freshman year, the once-outgoing and ambitious Dana Gatziolis started skipping classes, lost her appetite and slept whenever she could. Then followed a long struggle that included treatment, a suicide attempt and more treatment. Now she helps...
From: www.sfgate.com

Remembering Robert

Gifted lawyer Robert Broudie, civil rights campaigner and champion of the underdog, leapt to his death from the top of Liverpool cathedral in October last year. It was the final act of a man full of promise but blighted by depression and anxiety.
From: observer.guardian.co.uk

Research Investigates Whether Vitamin Folate Helps To Treat Depression

New research commissioned by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme is looking into whether the vitamin folate can help in the treatment of depression. One in five people experience depression during their lives and only half of these people respond to antidepressant treatment. [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Nigeria: FG Dispatches Drugs for Bird Flu Treatment in Human - Lagos assures citizens

Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, Dire-ctor of Research and Planning in the Federal Ministry of Health, has said government has dispatched large quantities of a drug known as Tamiflu to Lagos and other states of the federation for prompt treatment of bird flu infection of humans.
From: allafrica.com

FG Dispatches Drugs for Bird Flu Treatment in Human

Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, Dire-ctor of Research and Planning in the Federal Ministry of Health, has said government has dispatched large quantities of a drug known as Tamiflu to Lagos and other states of the federation for prompt treatment of bird flu infection of humans.
From: www.thisdayonline.com