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By Depressed Jane on April 21, 2007
Clinical depression affects up to 40 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer, but it’s a topic that scientists have not yet examined in depth.A new grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will allow a University of Tennessee professor to conduct a groundbreaking study into how best to treat well diagnosed depression in breast cancer patients. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 19, 2007
psyadvice.com, the Internet’spremier resource for psychological advice, has won theHealthcare Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007Interactive Media Awards. The judging panel, made up of Interactive Media Councilmembers, scored the entries against five key criteriancluding design, content, usability, standards complianceand functionality. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 16, 2007
In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of suicide in the U.S., researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that suicide rates among children, women and men of all ages are higher in states where more households have guns. The study appears in the April 2007 issue of The Journal of Trauma. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 16, 2007
The Internet offers a valuable opportunity for the public to screen themselves for depression. This is the conclusion of a study published recently in BMC Psychiatry, which demonstrates that a Chinese online tool for assessing depression is both accurate and reproducible, and may offer a way to identify the growing number of people suffering from depression. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 16, 2007
Much of the research surrounding childhood asthma has sought new approaches to managing the disease. However, little was done to address other conditions that often appear along with asthma including depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can negatively affect a child’s ability to cope. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 13, 2007
A new study shows that partners of cancer survivors are susceptible to the same stresses as cancer survivors themselves over the long term, and in some cases, suffer more quality of life-related effects than survivors. The results of the study, which examined partners of cancer survivors who had undergone blood and marrow transplant (BMT) as part of their treatment, were published online April 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO). [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 12, 2007
A UK study suggests that regular intense physical exercise is linked with lower rates of depression and anxiety in men up to five years later.The findings are published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.While some studies have shown links between reduced incidence of mild depression and regular physical exercise, many scientists cannot agree on whether physically active people are less likely to have depression and anxiety. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 11, 2007
Beyond the lineage of primates, according to scientific gospel, social behavior is dictated primarily by competition for resources such as food, territory and reproduction.That may well be true for many adult animals, but in a groundbreaking study researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found evidence that social interactions among young mice result from basic motivations to be with one another. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 8, 2007
The number of children and teenagers prescribed antidepressant medications appears to have decreased following public warnings about suicidal behavior potentially associated with the drugs, according to a report published in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, antidepressants are now more often prescribed to this age group by psychiatrists rather than primary care physicians.The U.S. [click link for full article]
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By Depressed Jane on April 8, 2007
Millions of UK workers are likely to be suffering from depression and panic attacks because they are so stressed out by their jobs. This is one of the key findings of the latest 24-7 survey – a national research project conducted by the Work Life Balance Centre, Leicestershire, UK, and the universities of Keele, Coventry and Wolverhampton. [click link for full article]
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