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Depression More Pervasive Among Back Pain Sufferers, A Study By Spine-Health.Com Reveals

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

A study by Spine-health.com, the leading health information website for consumers with chronic pain and back pain, reveals that depression may be much higher in back pain sufferers than previously thought. A Spine-health.com user poll conducted in June 2007 showed that 61% of people with chronic back pain also suffer from depression (n = 642). Previous clinical evidence estimated the incidence of depression in the chronic pain population at around 20% to 30%. [click link for full article]

Study Of Twins Connects Smoking Addiction With Major Depression

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Ever wonder why smoking and depression seem to go together? A Saint Louis University School of Public Health researcher finds the connection is genetic.”Some people with a history of depression may become smokers as a way of self-medicating,” said Qiang John Fu, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of community health in biostatistics at Saint Louis University School of Public Health. “Some people who are smokers might become depressed when they try to give up cigarettes and can’t. [click link for full article]

Statement Form The Irish Association Of Suicidology In The Aftermath Of The Recent Suicide Tragedy In Cork

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Our deepest sympathy goes to all those bereaved through suicide and particularly those left in pain following the recent suicide/filicides in Ireland. Murder suicide including murder filicide (that is the murder of a child by one or other parent who subsequently ends their own life by suicide) though a rare event is more common than one might think and always a matter of great concern. [click link for full article]

Depression In Female Heart Attack Victims Affects Quality Of Life

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Women who have suffered heart attacks have higher rates of lingering depressive symptoms compared to their male counterparts, a University of Alberta and McGill University study shows.In surveying 486 patients, 102 of them female, the joint study found that 14.3 per cent of the women had worsening depression one year after their initial myocardial infarctions, as compared to 11 per cent of the men. [click link for full article]

Two Large Studies Show Decline In Suicide Attempts With Antidepressant Treatment

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Patients with depression treated in two independent health care systems experienced overall drops in suicide attempts between the month prior to starting treatment with antidepressant medications and the month after treatment began. The findings are based on records from a large prepaid health plan and from Veterans Health Administration databases, reflecting the clinical care of more than 330,000 patients. [click link for full article]

Brain Pathway May Underlie Depression

Monday, July 16th, 2007

High-speed camera snapshots may have pinpointed a spot in the brain that serves as a marker for depression. Investigators have observed that electrical chatter in the dentate gyrus-a C-shaped region of the hippocampus-contracts in depressed rats but expands again after the animals receive antidepressants. [click link for full article]

Rat Study Reveals Brain Pathway Of Depression

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Scientists’ hunt for the cause of depression has implicated so many suspects and found so many treatments with different mechanisms that the condition remains an enigma. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified one unifying principle that could explain how a range of causes and treatments for depression converge. [click link for full article]

American Association Of Kidnay Patients Develops Understanding Depression Brochures

Monday, July 16th, 2007

The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) announced the development of two new depression brochures. Understanding Depression in Kidney Disease is the latest addition to the AAKP Understanding series. It is accompanied by When Your Loved One is Depressed, Tips on How You Can Help. Nearly 30 million Americans suffer from some form of depression. Many people with depression do not seek help, even though most of those with severe cases can be helped. [click link for full article]

Commonly Prescribed Antidepressants Associated With Lower Bone Density In Older Men And Women

Monday, July 16th, 2007

The class of antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors may be associated with an increased rate of bone loss in older men and women, according to two articles in the June 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [click link for full article]

Antidepressant Mirtazapine (Remeron®) Submitted For Approval In Japan

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Organon, the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel and Meiji Seika Kaisha has announced the filing of the new drug application for the novel antidepressant mirtazapine (also known as Remeron®) to the Japanese health authorities (PMDA). Mirtazapine - a Noradrenergic and Specific Serotonergic Antidepressant (NaSSA) - has a different mechanism of action and has been proven safe and effective in the treatment of major depression in more than 80 countries worldwide. [click link for full article]

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