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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Child Health News For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood. |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Earthquakes have aftershocks- not just the geological kind but the mental kind as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A new study shows that antidepressant drugs which only affect serotonin, frequently used as first choice treatments, may not be best for depression in people with Parkinson's disease. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Anyone will tell you that stress is bad for the heart. Many people also know about the toxic effects of anxiety and depression. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials New data suggest that Cymbalta (duloxetine HCl) 60 mg to 120 mg once daily delayed the onset of a new episode of depression in patients who had previously responded to the medication and who had recurrent depressive disorder, defined in the study as those patients who experienced at... |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Research conducted by a team in Switzerland suggests that a family of genes involved in regulating the expression of other genes in the brain is responsible for helping us deal with external inputs like stress. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Women's Health News Postpartum depression (PPD) can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows.A study published in the recent issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Medical students often suffer from depression, particularly during their internship years.New research published in the open access journal BMC Medical Education reveals the extent of the difficulty and features a detailed study of the symptoms and sufferers. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Though effective treatments are available for individuals suffering from chronic depression and anxiety, very small is known about how frequently these treatments are used or how prevalent these conditions are among the nation's common population. |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Devices/Technology A new universal test to predict the risk of somebody succumbing to major depression has been developed by UCL (University College London) researchers. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News The first melatonergic antidepressant - Valdoxan/Thymanax (agomelatine) - has received a positive view from the European Medicines Agency's (EMEA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for its use in the treatment of adult patients with major depressive disorder... |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Millions of Americans with moderate to severe acute pain and their health-care providers will soon have a new treatment option. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Men and women who have tried to kill themselves and are suffering from unipolar disorder (major depression), bipolar disorder (manic depression) or schizophrenia are at a very high risk of committing suicide within a year of their first attempt, concludes a study published... |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that patients who had negative thinking patterns, like thoughts about not being able to justify their own existence, were at higher risk for developing depression. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a therapy programme to treat depression in women in developing countries. |
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Depression is regular among individuals on dialysis for kidney disease, but behavioral therapy can significantly advance their quality of life, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in... |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News In the first-ever study of its kind, a team led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) report in November's Psychiatric Services journal that Spanish-speaking Hispanics took longer to respond to medication for... |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News The brains of individuals with major depressive disorder appear to react more heartily when anticipating pain and also display altered functioning of the neural network that modifies pain sensitivity, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General... |
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Medical Research News Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are almost twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found.In the study, available online and in the Sept. |
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
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Medical Condition News The University of Rochester Medical Center will present a forum on the progress of mental health research Sunday Sept. |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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Medical Research News A new report raises concerns about the mental well being of many of Australia's truck drivers.The report says many are working under such stressful conditions that they are suffering from depression and this could compromise their safety on the road. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Women's Health News A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery (CSD) were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans 2 to four weeks after delivery. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Women's Health News If there's one thing that everybody knows about newborn babies, it's that they don't sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. |
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Depression and heart disease are the 2 leading disorders with the strongest contributions to the global burden of disease. Depression and heart disease are also intertwined. |
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Sunday, 31 August 2008 |
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Women's Health News Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a generally used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps easiness their depression symptoms. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in mice that the brain must make new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to decrease depression-like behavior. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News A drug used to treat depression has been found to also be effective in reducing chronic low back pain. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News The news about antidepressant medications over the past several years has been mixed. The bad news from large multicenter studies like STAR*D is that present antidepressant medications are effective, but not as effective as one might hope. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News Brain scientists have moved a step closer to understanding why some people may be more prone to depression than others. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News Two specialist laboratories opening night at the University of Sydney will shed light on the impact of sleep and circadian disruption in medical disorders and shift-workers, and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying substance abuse and depression. |
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