Tennessee researcher earns Komen grant to study depression and breast cancer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Clinical depression affects up to 40 percent of women diagnosed with b...eaking study into how best to treat well diagnosed depression in breast cancer patients. "The study of how to treat depressed breast cancer patients is a critic...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
...ncy to worry, feel excessive amounts of anxiety or depression and to react to stressful life events more negativ...f Public Health, also controlled the data for age, depression levels and both subjective and objective ratings of overall health. "We found that neuroticism lev...Chance of hysterectomy predicted by multi-year study
...e who don't do as well often started with baseline depression or other conditions, he said. ...Study sheds light on medication treatment options for bipolar disorder
...ating illness marked by severe mood swings between depression and mania, is usually treated with mood stabilizer...e or other medications that reduce mania. However, depression is more common than mania in bipolar disorder, and depressive episodes tend to last longer than epis...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...EEN BY PSYCHIATRICSPECIALISTS Patients with major depression seen in primary care settings are equally as depressed, with similar symptoms, as those in specialty care, finds this review of data from 2,541 patients. Overall, levels of depressive symptom severity for primary care and specialty care participants...Most first-time offenders for driving while intoxicated need help for more than just alcohol
... "While other studies have examined symptoms of depression as a predictor of change during interventions for ...was the most frequent anxiety diagnosis, and major depression was the most common mood disorder." The good news, said Palmer, was that they found significant re...Phone-based therapy eases depression long term
...rapy included improvements in patients symptoms of depression and satisfaction with their care, said Ludman. At ...nt of those receiving regular care) reported their depression was much or very much improved. Those who received phone-based therapy were slightly better at takin...Educational video increases knowledge but not behavior
...w vision patients experience emotions ranging from depression to despair and might even entertain thoughts about suicide. "And, while many useful assistive devices and adaptive techniques exist, patient and physician awareness of these possibilities is alarmingly low," says Peli. Peli and colleagues from the...Aga Khan University team discover which patients keep on taking their medicine
...) was incorporated to find any association between depression and adherence. The questionnaires were pilot-teste...e adherence), whereas psychosocial factors such as depression showed no association. One powerful contributing factor to adherence may lay in the social and exten...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
...o are causes of falls and injuries and can lead to depression and social isolation. Xinzhi Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues used data on vision from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey to estimate the number of U.S. adults at high risk of vision los...Study reveals depressed elderly risk early death
...tal, 17% were found to have previously undiagnosed depression and of that figure, 7% died within two years of le...dy also showed that 41% of elderly people who have depression are often later re-admitted to hospital with other illnesses, possibly a result of not receiving app...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
...at these children are at higher risk of developing depression and/or anxiety as adults." One theory posits that everyone carries an ongoing stress burden that accumulates throughout life. Once a certain threshold is reached, either through one or two very traumatic events or through chronic, high levels of st...Using morphine to hasten death is a myth, says doctor
...dual patient, while at the same time helping fear, depression and spiritual distress, he adds. And he warns that doctors who act precipitously with high, often intravenous, doses of opioids are being misled into bad practice by the continuing promotion of double effect as a real and essential phenomenon in e...New insights into autoimmunity and depression
...l/arthritis ), shed light on the brain pathways of depression in general and in central nervous system dysfuncti...on. Imaging studies both in patients with clinical depression and patients with SLE could help determine whether these pathways are similarly affected in humans. ...Depression increases health risks in heart failure patients
DURHAM, N.C. -- Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes fo... North Carolina researchers found that symptoms of depression were common in this population, and that depressed patients were over 50 percent more likely to die ...CIHR-funded research: Antidepressants help men decrease alcohol consumption, but not women
...er using antidepressants affected the link between depression and level of alcohol consumption. The research con... Health (CAMH) concluded that women suffering from depression consumed more alcohol than women who did not experience depression, regardless of antidepressant use...Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
...der in the Era of Wonder Drugs, which examined how depression and anxiety medications were represented in advertising aimed at physicians, and in the entertainment media, in the latter half of the 20th century. Todays ads amplify peoples cultural expectations, or even change them, he says in the new essay f...Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
...looked at attempted suicide in families with major depression and alcohol dependence. Family linkage studies are not always consistent, so the fact that all three studies, including ours, point to the same region of the genome is a good indication that we are on the right track toward identifying a gene or g...Erectile dysfunction influenced by race and ethnicity
... lower urinary tract symptoms, hypertension and/or depression were increasingly likely to suffer from ED. Odds d...cial influences in ED, particularly the effects of depression and a poor partner relationship in minority men. Given the prevalence of physical risk factors (diab...Take fatigue seriously, says University of Alberta researcher
...alliative settings, and individuals diagnosed with depression or chronic fatigue syndrome. Having worked with cancer patients for many years, she saw how serious fatigue was and the impact it had on the patients' quality of life. Some patients even withdrew for a potentially curative treatment saying they were ...