Depressed Jane

Depression is sometimes viewed as a normal part of aging. It shouldn’t be. Left untreated, depression increases the likelihood of disability, placement in a nursing home, and death. Suicide risk also increases with age; white men over age 85 have the highest suicide rate in the United States.

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In a recent US study published in the British BMJand available on bmj.com,researchers found that depressed doctors in training are more than sixtimes as likely to make medication errors as their non-depressedcolleagues.Studies have shown that doctors in training, or residents, are highlylikely to develop depression and burnout.

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AstraZeneca announced that the company has submitted applications in the European Union (EU) under the Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) for once-daily SEROQUEL XR(TM) (quetiapine fumarate) Extended-Release Tablets, seeking approval for the treatment of manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder and the treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder. This follows two supplemental New Drug Applications (sNDAs) to the U.S.

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A leading UK charity has published the results of a survey that shows the number of GPs prescribing exercise as a treatment for depression has gone up in the last three years.The Mental Health Foundation announced to the press today, Friday 8th February, that it found 22 per cent of GPs now prescribe exercise as one of the three preferred treatments for depression. Three years ago this figure was only 5 per cent.

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A team approach to treating depression in older adults, already shown to improve health, can also cut total health-care costs, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The study appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.

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St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced it has received an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin enrollment in a controlled, multi-site, blinded, clinical study of deep brain stimulation for major depressive disorder, a severe form of depression.

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Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the February Archives of General Psychiatry.The Yale team also found that women were less likely to die while depressed than older men, indicating that women live longer with depression than men.

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Accordingto a recent report in the Archives of General Psychiatry,older womenare more likely to become depressed and to remain depressed than oldermen, but less likely to die while depressed. Lisa C. Barry of the Yale University School of Medicine and colleaguesperformed the study in light of the fact that the prevalence ofdepression is disproportionately higher in older women than men, andthe reason is unknown.

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In the PhD defended by the pharmacologist and biochemist Jorge Emilio Ortega Calvo at the University of the Basque Country, a new anti-depressant treatment strategy is proposed that is capable of improving on the current one with its drawbacks.Depression is a chronic and recurrent illness that can affect at least 20% of the population at some period in their lifetime, according to a number of studies carried out.

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Some forms of a gene that controls the body’s response to stress hormones appear to protect adults who were abused in childhood from depression, psychiatrists have found.People who had been abused as children and who carried the most protective forms of the gene, called corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor one (CRHR1), had markedly lower measures of depression, compared with people with less protective forms, the researchers found in a recent study.

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