Most Depressed Teens Don't Get Treatment
Lack of insurance often reason why, government report suggests 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 governm...Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law May Overlook Depressed Patients
Study finds 1 in 4 terminally ill not getting treatment that could influence decision WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law may not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with clinical depression, a new study says. The Deat...Exercise, Counseling Benefits Depressed Heart Failure Patients
Aerobic workouts, counseling therapy boosted physical ability, lessened melancholy THURSDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise and counseling are the prescription for improving the quality of life of heart failure patients who suffer depression, a new report says. Aerobic exercise...Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants: Study
But some mental-health experts dispute the findings TUESDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- While popular antidepressants such as Prozac are widely prescribed for people with varying degrees of depression, the drugs are only effective for those with the most severe depression, a new study...Why some depressed girls can't smell the roses
Cant smell the roses? Maybe youre depressed. Smell too much like a rose yourself? Maybe youve got the same problem. Scientists from Tel Aviv University recently linked depression to a biological mechanism that affects the olfactory glands. It might explain why some women, without realizing it, wea...Possible genetic predictor for response to lithium augmentation in depressed patients
Philadelphia, PA, December 6, 2007 As in most fields of medicine, psychiatry researchers are working to identify specific types of patients, through their individual genetic variations, that may better benefit from particular drugs or combinations of drugs than other patients. A new study, publis...Drug Plus Psychotherapy Best Treatment for Depressed Teens
This strategy beat out either therapy alone, researchers found MONDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of cognitive behavior therapy plus antidepressant drugs is the best way to ease depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts and behavior in depressed teens, new research shows. The ...Kaiser Permanente Study Shows One in Seven Women are Depressed Before, During, or After Pregnancy
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbi...Treatment Programs Benefit Depressed Workers
Study found significant improvement in symptoms and productivity TUESDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Employees struggling with depression who participated in a workplace program that used a care manager to guide them through treatment saw an improvement in their symptoms as well as g...Labopharm files New Drug Submission with Health Canada for novel antidepressant
...stical significance was achieved for the primary endpoint (p value of 0.012). The majority of the secondary efficacy end points, including the HAMD-17 depressed mood item, the Clinical Global Impressions Severity (CGI-S) scale, the Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score and a Responder's...Cephalon Announces Positive Results From a Phase Two Study of NUVIGIL in Bipolar Depression
...c) and lows (depressed) in mood. People with bipolar disorders cycle between periods of manic or depressive mood and typically spend more time in the depressed phase of the illness. The eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy and safety of NUVIGIL (150 mg/day) as an ad...Diverse Approaches to Alzheimer's Therapies Continue to Show Progress at ICAD
... Dimebon was well-tolerated through 18 months. Adverse events that occurred more often with dimebon compared to placebo were dry mouth, sweating and depressed mood/sadness. "People initially treated with placebo and then crossed over to Dimebon did not show the same level of benefit as those people who too...Medivation Announces Positive Top-Line Results From Phase 2 Dimebon Study in Huntington's Disease
...p was headache, which occurred in 19% of treated patients compared to 7% of placebo patients. Headaches were generally mild in severity. Dry mouth and depressed mood were similar in both treated and placebo groups (4% and 7%, respectively). "To my knowledge, no other drug has resulted in statistically signif...New Subset Analysis of AndroGel(R) Data Highlights Efficacy - Regardless of BMI
...l conditions, low testosterone is frequently undiagnosed. Signs and symptoms of low testosterone include low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, depressed mood, reduced muscle mass and strength, increased fat body mass and decreased bone mineral density. Men with chronic conditions, such as obesity, di...CD-Chex Plus BC Immunophenotyping Control
Description:...ues for five subsets of leukocytes include: T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, granulocytes, monocytes, and NK cells. CD-Chex® Plus BC CD4 Low offers a depressed CD4 absolute number often indicated in patients with immunodeficiency diseases. Both offer 30-day open-vial stability and 90-day closed-vial stability...CD-Chex Plus Immunophenotyping Control
Description:...anulocytes, monocytes, and NK cells. CD-Chex Plus is assayed for normal levels of CD34+ cells found in peripheral blood. CD-Chex Plus CD4 Low offers a depressed CD4 absolute number often indicated in patients with immunodeficiency diseases. Both offer 30-day open-vial stability and 90-day closed-vial stability...Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites. Black women, however, have nea...New tracking tags are providing fish-eye views of ways to manage depressed fisheries
New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, according to a new study. Until recently, scientists provided fishery managers only such limited dat...Women more depressed and men more impulsive with reduced serotonin functioning
Philadelphia, PA, September 17, 2007 Women and men appear to respond differently to the same biochemical manipulation. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common mental disorders, and it is also one of the most studied. It is already known that reduced serotonin transmission cont...New brain-chemistry differences found in depressed women
A new brain study finds major differences between women with serious depression and healthy women in a brain-chemical system that's crucial to stress and emotions. The study adds further evidence that depression has its roots in specific alterations within the brain -- specifically in the endoge...After dinosaurs, mammals rise but their genomes get smaller
... older and younger LTRs. The shape of the curve is consistent with previously published data for other types of so-called "junk" DNA elements. The depressed numbers of very young LTRs, Lynch says, strongly suggests a contraction in overall genome sizes of the lineages of the mammals the scientists studied....Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant
...s of the Negev desert region. When the research team watered the plant artificially, they observed how the water flows along the course of the leave's depressed veins to the ground surrounding the plant's single root and then penetrates the ground to a depth of 10 cm or more. Under the experimental conditions,...Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity, CSHL team finds
...1 gene, then the protein becomes non-functional. This, in turn, perturbs the stabilization of the AMPA receptors. And that, we propose, accounts for depressed function of glutamatergic, or excitatory neurons." Below-normal glutamatergic function, specifically observed in these experiments in the rat hippoca...Team identifies a molecular switch linking infectious disease and depression
...ew minutes, for example, they struggle less to escape and spend more time floating passively, the researchers report. "The mice that we're calling depressed give up more quickly. While physically able, the mice quit trying to escape," said animal sciences professor Jason O'Connor, first author on the study...Children seriously affected when a parent suffers from depression
...to. Family interplay and reciprocity decrease. The depressed parent withdraws from the family, and the children...vel. The children take responsibility for both the depressed parent, siblings and themselves, when they notice ...ibility that children take on is ensuring that the depressed parent doesn't commit suicide. So children take on...Chantix side effects no worse with depression history
...on (FDA) studies that the manufacturer funded. "People tend to feel more depressed or irritable while quitting smoking, especially if they have had depression...en raised that varenicline may increase neuropsychiatric symptoms including depressed mood in people with prior depression." Yet she and colleagues found using v...Post-January, tech entrepreneurs have reasons to be depressed
Depressed? Considering we just escaped January a notoriously depressing month because of the post-holiday letdown and the cold, dark and dank weather thats no surprise. In fact, an English psychologist calculated that January 24 (just one week ago) was the most depressing day of the year. W...Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth
...eductions on Shire's sales of branded ADDERALL XR, together with lower margin sales of the authorized generic version of ADDERALL XR to Teva have both depressed gross margin for that product. Research and development ("R&D") % of % of ...Essilor : First Half 2009 Revenue
...rly in the independent eyecare professionals segment. The only exception was in Japan, where Nikon-Essilor nevertheless increased its share of a still depressed market. In Latin America, growth slowed for the period, partly due to the comparison with the 17.6% gain reported in first-half 2008. However, ...China-Biotics, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2009 Financial Results
...we achieved in our new state-of- the-art manufacturing facility," said Mr. Jinan Song, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China-Biotics. "Despite depressed retail sales stemming from the challenging global economy, we continued to experience growth in both of our businesses from the prior year. In additio...Biotech Shows Glimmer of an Upward Trend
...e, a late stage, first-in-class compound for the treatment of prostate cancer. "The predicted land grab of biotech by big pharma because of their depressed values has not yet panned out with pharma companies preferring to acquire each other. However, we may now see an upswing in M&A activity heading i...NanoLogix Begins Construction of Production Facility for Medical Test Kits
...t potential threats for use as bio-weapons by terrorists. The BNP(TM) production operation is expected to create a dozen jobs in the economically depressed Youngstown, Ohio, area, with more to follow as product demand increases. Other NNLX News: NanoLogix recently received a substantial royalty pay...VirtualScopics' Project Balance Exceeds a Record $31 Million
... decisions required with today's complex study designs," said Jeff Markin, VirtualScopics' president and chief executive officer. He added, "With the depressed global economic environment, we are especially encouraged at the growth we are seeing and remain optimistic with our 2009 projections." Vice Pres...Board Reviews Strategic Options to Present to Shareholders at Shareholders' Meeting
...ted assets - tender offer for the entire company - other options, including a return of capital The Board believes that the currently depressed stock market may value the company as a whole less than the sum of its assets. It will therefore invite Arpida shareholders to select their preferred ...