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News: February 14, 2012
Depression, Partner Conflict Raise Suicide Risk for Pregnant Women, New Moms
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Major depression and conflicts with intimate partners increase the risk of suicide among pregnant women and new mothers, a new study indicates. "We have a more complete picture now of who these women are and what...
Depression Higher in Wealthier Nations
TUESDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Depression rates are higher in richer countries than in low- or middle-income nations, according to researchers who compared socioeconomic conditions with depression. About 121 million people worldwide have dep...
Antidepressants Work Overall, But Some Symptoms May Persist
TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Antidepressants may not improve all symptoms of depression, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from a U.S. National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored study of depression treatment, which in...
Mexican Immigrants to U.S. Prone to Depression, Anxiety Disorders
WEDNESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Young adult Mexican migrants in the United States are much more likely to suffer depression and anxiety disorders than family members of migrants who remain in Mexico, a new study finds. Researchers compared ...
Study Hints at Link Between Antidepressants and Heart Trouble
SATURDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Men taking antidepressants may be at risk for atherosclerosis, which can increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke, a small, preliminary study suggests. Antidepressants were associated with about a 5 perce...
Kids Can Rebound Quickly After Mom's Depression Lifts: Study
TUESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Successful treatment of major depression in mothers also leads to improved mental health for their children, according to a new study. Children of parents with major depression are at increased risk of being d...
Viibryd Approved for Major Depressive Disorder
MONDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Viibryd (vilazodone hydrochloride) tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults. MDD is diagnosed when daily life is affected...
Fewer Cancer Patients May Be Depressed Than Thought
THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of depression among cancer patients may be lower than previously believed, a new study indicates. An international team of researchers analyzed 94 studies involving more than 14,000 patients and found...
Depressed Smokers Less Likely to Quit Successfully
TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers trying kick the addiction are less likely to be successful if they're depressed, says a new study. Researchers surveyed callers to the California Smokers' Helpline and found that 24 percent had major dep...
Magnet Therapy an Option for Tough-to-Treat Depression
THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A treatment for major depression that uses intense magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain, previously shown to reduce acute symptoms for brief periods, appears to work over the longer term when teamed with ant...
9% of U.S. Adults Suffer From Depression: CDC
THURSDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 9 percent of adult Americans currently meet the criteria for clinical depression, federal officials reported Thursday. Rates of depression vary widely from state to state, ranging from a low of 4...
Mood Disorders Going Undetected in U.S. Children
TUESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- American kids who suffer from anxiety or depression may not be getting the help they need. Mental health experts say the reasons are complicated, but fixable.
Allergies Might Trigger Depression
THURSDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Allergy season may not mean just the inevitable coughing, sneezing and itching, it could also significantly darken your mood. Researchers reported that finding at the American Psychiatric Association's annual m...
Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury
TUESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression. That's the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabili...
Daylight Savings: Not a Bright Time for All
FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Most people will welcome the start of daylight savings time this Sunday because it starts to stay light longer, even if that means the early mornings will be dark once again. However, that shift may not be such...
Acupuncture May Ease Depression During Pregnancy
MONDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Women who experience depression during pregnancy may have another treatment option, new research suggests. The study found that women treated with depression-specific acupuncture had a 63 percent response rate c...
Untreated, Mild May Become Major Depression
THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- For many people whose depression goes untreated, symptoms persist and worsen over time, eventually leading to a diagnosis of major depression, according to new research. The finding stems from a study of 348 ad...
Antidepressants May Change Your Personality
MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Taking antidepressants may not only help alleviate depression, but could make you more extraverted and less neurotic, new research suggests. Extraversion, which is associated with positive emotions, is believed t...
Fish Oil Supplements Don't Help Depressed Heart Patients
TUESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- In a surprise and not very welcome finding, researchers report that fish oil supplements do not ease depression in individuals who suffer from both depression and coronary heart disease. Participants in the stu...
Recession Adds to Ranks of Americans With Depression
THURSDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Unemployed Americans are four times more likely than those with jobs to report symptoms of severe mental illness, such as major depression, according to a new national survey that reveals the mental health toll...
Antidepressants Linked to Heart Defects in Newborns
THURSDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Women who take certain antidepressants during the first three months of pregnancy may have a slightly increased risk of giving birth to babies with heart defects. Septal heart defects -- malformations in the ...
Depressed Teens Continue to Suffer
FRIDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Mildly depressed teenagers are more likely to have major depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders as adults, a new study suggests. In 1983, researchers interviewed 755 teenagers who were about age 16 a...
Foreclosures Plunge People Into Depression
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- The epidemic of home foreclosures is having a serious impact on Americans' health, suggests a study that looked at 250 Philadelphia homeowners facing foreclosure. More than half of them reported being depress...
Depression Poses Pregnancy Risks
SUNDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Thanks to high-profile celebrities like Brooke Shields, postpartum depression is out of the closet and discussed as something to recognize and treat. But less well known is depression during pregnancy -- a commo...
If Mom or Dad Is Depressed, Kids Need Help Too
WEDNESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- When parents are depressed, their children can suffer too. A new report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine calls for health and social service professionals to pay greater attent...
Stigma Keeps Teens From Depression Treatment
WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Concern about their family's reaction to their depression is a major reason why many teens don't seek treatment, new research suggests. In the study, which included 368 teens and one parent or guardian of each...
Tailored Treatments Effective for Depression Due to Pain
TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Combined drug and behavioral interventions helped reduce pain and depression in patients with musculoskeletal pain and coexisting depression, a U.S. study finds. The study included 250 patients who'd had low bac...
Most Depressed Teens Don't Get Treatment
WEDNESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in 10 American adolescents have experienced at least one bout of major depression in the past year, but only about 39 percent of those cases received treatment, a new government report released Wedn...
Brain Stimulation Therapy Eases Tough-to-Treat Depression
THURSDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- A technique called cortical brain stimulation improved symptoms and, in some cases, launched a full remission for people with major depression who had suffered for decades and who had failed multiple other treat...
Psychotherapy Can Ease Post-Surgical Depression
MONDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Two non-drug treatments -- cognitive behavior therapy and supportive stress management -- seem to be more effective than usual care for treating depression in patients who've had coronary artery bypass graft (CA...
Symbyax Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression
MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- The bipolar depression drug Symbyax (fluoxetine hydrochloride; olanzapine) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval as a therapy for people with treatment-resistant depression, Eli Lilly & Co. sa...
Lexapro Approved for Adolescent Depression
FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- The Forest Laboratories antidepressant Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate) has been approved to treat major depressive disorder (MDD) in people aged 12 to 17, the company said Friday in a news release. Some 2 millio...
Drinking May Trigger Genetic Marker for Depression
FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Alcohol abuse may increase the risk of depression, instead of the other way around, a New Zealand study suggests. Previous research has identified a link between alcohol abuse or dependence and major depression....
Zoloft, Lexapro the Best of Newer Antidepressants
THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Sertraline (Zoloft) and escitalopram (Lexapro) are the best of 12 new-generation antidepressants, while reboxetine is the least effective, a new analysis shows. The Italian researchers reviewed 117 studies tha...
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