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Ketamine improved bipolar depression within minutes

Bipolar disorder is a serious and debilitating condition where individuals experience severe swings in mood between mania and depression. The episodes of low or elevated mood can last days or months, and the risk of suicide ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Troublesome dyspnea during sexual activity is common in COPD patients

Troublesome dyspnea that limits sexual activity is common among older patients with COPD, according to a new study from Denmark.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

African-Americans face roadblocks to HIV therapy, untreated depression makes it worse

African-Americans with HIV are much less likely to adhere to drug therapy than others with the disease, according to a University of Michigan study.

HIV & AIDS created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

EU approves Novartis drug Signifor for Cushing's disease

European Union regulators have given Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis a green light to market its drug Signifor as a treatment for Cushing's disease, the company said Wednesday.

Medications created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Evidence shows that anti-depressants likely do more harm than good, researchers find

Commonly prescribed anti-depressants appear to be doing patients more harm than good, say researchers who have published a paper examining the impact of the medications on the entire body.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Depression linked to greater risk of peripheral artery disease

Depression may be associated with an increased risk of arterial narrowing in the legs and pelvis, a condition known as peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis, ...

Cardiology created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chronic depression patients pick acupuncture over counseling

(HealthDay) -- Patients with depression can be recruited from primary care to compare acupuncture with counseling and general practitioner (GP) care, according to a study published in the April issue of CNS Ne ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drugs ease depression in Parkinson's patients without worsening other symptoms

Today's anti-depressant medications can ease depression in Parkinson's patients without worsening other symptoms of the disease, according to a study published online in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicians less likely to prescribe antidepressants to minorities, Medicaid patients

African-Americans and Hispanics with major depressive disorder are less likely to get antidepressants than Caucasian patients, and Medicare and Medicaid patients are less likely to get the newest generation of antidepressants.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Therapeutic approach for patients with severe depression

Brain pacemakers have a long-term effect in patients with the most severe depression. This has now been proven by scientists from the Bonn University Medical Center. Eleven patients took part in the study over a period of ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exercise can help when chronic illness gets you down, study finds

Suffering from a chronic illness can drain a person's quality of life, but add in depression, and the results are debilitating. A new study from University of Georgia researchers shows that exercise training can reduce depression ...

Health created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Activity in brain networks related to features of depression

Depressed individuals with a tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts, i.e. to repeatedly think about particular negative thoughts or memories, show different patterns of brain network activation compared to healthy individuals, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Increased risk of cardiovascular disease for relatives of cancer patients

A current study shows that the risk for coronary heart disease and stroke increases by almost thirty per cent in a person whose partner has cancer. The cause is probably the negative stress to which the cancer patient's relative ...

Cardiology created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Depression has big impact on stroke, TIA survivors

Depression is more prevalent among stroke and transient ischemic attack survivors than in the general population, researchers reported in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.

Cardiology created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stigma linked to depression among lung cancer patients

Studying the role of social stigma in depression for lung cancer patients, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that depression can be heightened by a lung cancer patient's sense of social rejection, ...

Cancer created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0