Archive for June, 2007
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007The established antidepressant sertraline does not improve symptoms, wellbeing or survival in patients with advanced cancer who do not have major depression. The findings are reported early Online - timed to coincide with presentation of the paper at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago - and in the July edition of The Lancet Oncology. [click link for full article]
Are Physicians Hesitant To Diagnose Depression?
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Providing a voice to an often silent disease, Epocrates, Inc. surveyed 500 clinicians to identify trends in depression diagnosis, prevalence and treatment. People dealing with stress, whether in the workplace or at home, should take note; nearly all clinicians identified stress as the leading contributor to depression. [click link for full article]
Recovery For Elderly With Depression Improves With Medication, Says Pitt School Of Medicine Study
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Adding a medication to a standard treatment regimen for major depressive disorder in the elderly improves chances of recovery in those who do not adequately respond to the first-course therapy or who relapse from it, finds a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association. [click link for full article]
Samaritans And Big Brother 8 Aid Emotional Support In UK And Ireland
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Samaritans has joined with Channel 4 and Big Brother 8 in a partnership to back the emotional support provided 24:7 to people in emotional distress. Samaritans’ income from Big Brother 8 will depend on viewing figures and the volume of calls from the public as donations will come entirely from viewers’ voting. Ten pence from every vote will go to the three charity beneficiaries. Last year the final Big Brother programme alone achieved 7.7 million viewers. [click link for full article]
New Mothers Often Not Asked About Depression, UNC Survey Finds
Thursday, June 7th, 2007The majority of doctors in North Carolina do not probe for signs of postpartum depression in new mothers, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Of the 228 physicians responding to the survey who said they had seen women for postpartum visits in the previous three months, 79 percent said they were unlikely to formally screen the patients for depression. [click link for full article]
Newly Published Data Shows Superiority Of Cipralex® Over Duloxetine For Acute Treatment Of Depression
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007H. Lundbeck A/S announces new study data published today in the journal Current Medical Research and Opinion, demonstrating that Cipralex® (escitalopram) was superior to duloxetine in the acute treatment of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and was at least as efficacious in long-term treatment. [click link for full article]
Augmenting Drug Treatment Increases Recovery Prospects For Elderly Patients With Depression
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007The addition of a second medication to (or “augmentation of”) the treatment plan of elderly patients with depression who either failed to respond to initial treatment, or relapsed early, results in a significant increase in the likelihood of recovery after the second drug is added, a new study has found. [click link for full article]
Effects Of Depression And Pain Severity On Satisfaction In Medical Outpatients: Analysis Of The Medical Outcomes Study
Friday, June 1st, 2007Patient satisfaction is a critical measure of healthcare quality. We performed this study to see how depression and pain severity affected patient satisfaction in medical outpatients. We analyzed data from the Medical Outcomes Study and found that pain was very common and patients with depression and pain were much more likely to be dissatisfied with their healthcare. These findings may also have care-delivery implications, should dissatisfaction indicate poorer quality of care. [click link for full article]
Mothers With Young Children Are Especially Vulnerable To Poor Mental Health
Friday, June 1st, 2007Mental health can take a serious blow among mothers with young children if they lack some basic daily support. Researchers found that poor maternal mental health can result if women lack emotional or hands-on support with parenting, spend what they feel is too much time with a child or have difficulty paying for childcare. Facing one of those obstacles tripled a woman’s risk for poor mental health, while struggling with two or more such obstacles increased the risk 12-fold. [click link for full article]
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