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Older patients with major depression whose primary care physicians team with depression care managers are 45% less likely to die within a 5-year time period than older adults with major depression who receive their care in primary care practices where there are no depression care managers. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, appears in the current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. [click link for full article]

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Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday said he would introduce a bill (S 1375) that would increase postpartum depression research at NIH and would provide grants to state and local health care workers to increase screening and treatment of the condition, CQ HealthBeat reports (Webber, CQ HealthBeat, 5/11). [click link for full article]

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Going for a green walk in a park or countryside where one is surrounded by nature reduces depression whereas walking in a shopping centre or urban setting increases depression. This is the message of Mind, a leading UK mental health charity that this week is launching a new “green agenda” for mental health based on the concept of “ecotherapy”.The campaign is backed by two studies commissioned from the University of Essex. [click link for full article]

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Results of a study involving almost 2,000 HIV-infected people receiving HIV care show that African-American and Hispanic women with dysthymia, a less intense but chronic form of depression, were half as likely to receive lifeprolonging highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) compared with white men with no accompanying mental disorder. [click link for full article]

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In adult monkeys, an antidepressant treatment has induced new nerve cell growth in the hippocampus, a brain area responsible for learning and memory. A similar process may occur in humans, the research suggests, and may help explain the effectiveness of antidepressant treatments.The results, the first from nonhuman primates, are similar to those previously seen in rodents. [click link for full article]

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps patients with severe depression who don’t respond to other treatments, and should be considered more often in the earlier stages of the illness, according to an article in the May issue of the Southern Medical Journal, published by the Southern Medical Association and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. [click link for full article]

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Fabre- Kramer Pharmaceuticals Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline announced today the submission by Fabre-Kramer to the Food and Drug Administration of an amendment to the New Drug Application for gepirone extended release (ER). The amendment responds to the FDA’s June 2004 request for an additional positive short term efficacy trial for gepirone ER. Fabre-Kramer is seeking marketing approval of gepirone ER for the treatment of major depressive disorder. [click link for full article]

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People living with depression or bipolar disorder are also likely to have significant problems with anxiety, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, according to an online survey conducted by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). The nation’s largest patient- run organization focusing on two of the most prevalent mental illnesses conducted the survey to mark National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week, May 6-12. [click link for full article]

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Soldiers returning from combat in Iraq who have migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to also have symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression or anxiety than soldiers who do not have migraines, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007. [click link for full article]

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today proposed that makers of all antidepressant medications update the existing black box warning on their products’ labeling to include warnings about increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in young adults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment (generally the first one to two months). [click link for full article]

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