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Prozac Failed Anorexic Women in Study

WINK TV - CHICAGO Prozac is one of the antidepressants often used to treat anorexia, but researchers found it didn't stop young women from resuming their self-starving ways. In a small study, more than half of the women who got Prozac or dummy pills dropped ...

From the HealthyWomen Seafood Guide

WTOC TV - Although the link between seafood consumption and improved health has been known for decades, a number of recent studies are shedding new light on the many health benefits of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish. Considered essential nutrients ...

Smile — even if it takes Botox — and you'll feel better

Inside Bay Area - FUNNY, SHE DOESN'T LOOK SO HAPPY: Botox injections paralyze muscles, preventing wrinkles and maybe bad moods and weak smiles. "Wear a smile and you have friends; wear a scowl and you have wrinkles." INSPIRED by age-old literary wisdom, countless song ...

Lorraine Bracco is no shrinking violet

Monterey County Herald - NEW YORK - Lorraine Bracco once told a gathering of the American Psychoanalytic Association, "I am so not Dr. Melfi." And ain't that the case. In her new book, "On the Couch," the actress details her failed relationships, bankruptcy, betrayals, and a ...

Suffer from Chronic Depression? New Treatment Offers Hope

WTOC TV - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Brief intervention reduces symptoms of depression

EurekAlert - Taking a page from the treatment book on alcohol abuse, researchers from the University of Washington have successfully tested a brief, low-cost intervention to deal with depression, the No. 1mental health problem in the United States. Students with ...

Seizures Don't Always Signal Epilepsy

WANE-TV - THURSDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Not all seizures are caused by epilepsy, but psychological seizures can be hard for even trained medical professionals to distinguish from epileptic seizures, new research has found. Psychological -- or ...

With Age Comes Wisdom... and Happiness

KPHO - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Mouse Study Finding May Help Battle MS

WECT - THURSDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Not all seizures are caused by epilepsy, but psychological seizures can be hard for even trained medical professionals to distinguish from epileptic seizures, new research has found. Psychological -- or ...

Seizures Don't Always Signal Epilepsy

KATC 3 - THURSDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Not all seizures are caused by epilepsy, but psychological seizures can be hard for even trained medical professionals to distinguish from epileptic seizures, new research has found. Psychological -- or ...

Recovery from meth is difficult with a high rate of relapse

Vindicator - YOUNGSTOWN — Meth users' nasty looking skin is a sign they're "rotting from the inside out," a recovery specialist says. "They also pick at the skin, thinking things are crawling on them," clinical coordinator Gloria Hudnell said from her Lake Area ...

Money Saving Ideas

KCBD - Although the link between seafood consumption and improved health has been known for decades, a number of recent studies are shedding new light on the many health benefits of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish. Considered essential nutrients ...

Ledger Update - A decade after disappearance, family tries to make ...

Patriot Ledger - HINGHAM - There are days when Ron Minassian will walk out onto the beach and still wonder what happened to his wife, Trisha. It was on June 30, 1996 that Trisha Minassian, a 37-year-old mother of three, drove away from a family vacation on Cape Cod ...

Chasing family demons (Times Online)

According to scientists at the Virginia Commonwealth University, genes contribute significantly more to a woman’s risk of depression than to a man’s. I register such information anxiously; my mum has suffered from crippling depression for more than 25 years. Her mother did, too.

Drug-free depression treatment introduced

Daily Tribune - Dr. Ronald Rosenberg, a private-practice psychiatrist affiliated with William Beaumont Hospital, holds an implant used in a new form of therapy for patients with treatment-resistant depression. TROY -- Depression is considered among the most ...

Suffer from Chronic Depression? New Treatment Offers Hope

KCBD - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Smile — even if it takes Botox — and you'll feel better

Inside Bay Area - "Wear a smile and you have friends; wear a scowl and you have wrinkles." INSPIRED by age-old literary wisdom, countless song lyrics and the 1872 musings of Charles Darwin, a very 2006 theory to treat depression has emerged. Why not turn that frown ...

Chasing family demons (Times Online)

According to scientists at the Virginia Commonwealth University, genes contribute significantly more to a woman’s risk of depression than to a man’s. I register such information anxiously; my mum has suffered from crippling depression for more than 25 years. Her mother did, too.

Don’t be caught short (Times Online)

Buying life insurance, critical illness cover or income protection is, for many, the least enjoyable aspect of financial planning. Not only do you have to think the worst and confront your mortality, but you also have to choose from a seemingly endless list of complex options.

Experts calling for new neighborhood designs in obesity fight

Inside Bay Area - IT'LL TAKE MORE than public service campaigns to solve the nation's obesity problem, according to fitness experts who say neighborhoods must be designed so people can get around without their cars. Virtually everything American society has done for ...

Guiding female veterans toward aid

Baltimore Sun - Eighteen months after she enlisted in the Army, Wanda Porter fell from a 50-foot tower, shattering her feet and ending her military career. Today, after three surgeries, a year in a veterans hospital, a failed marriage, bouts of depression and 17 ...

Smile — even if it takes Botox — and you'll feel better

Inside Bay Area - "Wear a smile and you have friends; wear a scowl and you have wrinkles." INSPIRED by age-old literary wisdom, countless song lyrics and the 1872 musings of Charles Darwin, a very 2006 theory to treat depression has emerged. Why not turn that frown ...

Suffer from Chronic Depression? New Treatment Offers Hope

WOI-TV - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Postpartum depression often overlooked

Valley Morning Star - HARLINGEN - The symptoms slip into a woman's life unannounced, just when she might expect to feel happy and fulfilled. Suddenly, a new mother feels listless, empty, inexplicably sad. She doesn't feel connected to her newborn. She's overwhelmed ...

Whitehall battle over army of therapists (Daily Telegraph)

Two cabinet ministers are locked in a spending battle over plans to recruit an army of psychiatric therapists to help one million people off £78.50 a week incapacity benefit and into work.

Depression and schizophrenia 'should be treated with therapy' (Guardian Unlimited)

Psychological therapy should be offered to every person in the country with depression, anxiety or schizophrenia, says a report from an influential group of health professionals published today.

Depression, a disease that we must defeat (Guardian Unlimited)

Crippling depression and chronic anxiety are the biggest causes of misery in Britain today. They are the great submerged problems, which shame keeps out of sight.

'Treat distress with therapy' (Guardian Unlimited)

Psychological therapy should be offered to every person in the country with depression, anxiety or schizophrenia, says health professionals' report.

Positive thinking (Guardian Unlimited)

Despite what many may believe, depression is not a symptom of our modern consumer age.

Therapy could 'cut benefits bill' (BBC News)

A new report suggests improving psychotherapy provision could get more people back to work

Libby Brooks: on her new book and childhood (Guardian Unlimited)

Children have never been safer, yet parents are more anxious about them than ever. Is it kids that have changed - or our idea of childhood? In the first of two extracts from her new book, Libby Brooks enters the fantasy world of a six-year-old girl.

Mental Health and Illness - Bouncing Back from the Brink

Southern Illinoisan - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States suffered from depression his entire adult life. He often battled suicidal thoughts and would go off into the woods, alone accompanied only by a gun. During the time of his second nervous ...

Case Report -- Management of HIV/HCV Coinfection: Viral Suppression vs ...

Medscape News - A 41-year-old black woman is referred to a hepatologist for evaluation of her treatment for chronic hepatitis C. This patient was diagnosed with HIV infection 8 years earlier when she was hospitalized for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia . At that time ...

Mouse Study Finding May Help Battle MS

WIS-TV - THURSDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Not all seizures are caused by epilepsy, but psychological seizures can be hard for even trained medical professionals to distinguish from epileptic seizures, new research has found. Psychological -- or ...

BABY GLOOM

McAllen Monitor - HARLINGEN — The symptoms slip into a woman’s life unannounced, just when she might expect to feel happy and fulfilled. Suddenly, a new mother feels listless, empty, inexplicably sad. She does not feel connected to her newborn. She is overwhelmed ...

Suffer from Chronic Depression? New Treatment Offers Hope

WXIX - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Positive thinking (Guardian Unlimited)

Despite what many may believe, depression is not a symptom of our modern consumer age.

'Treat distress with therapy' (Guardian Unlimited)

Psychological therapy should be offered to every person in the country with depression, anxiety or schizophrenia, says health professionals' report.

Depression, a disease that we must defeat (Guardian Unlimited)

Crippling depression and chronic anxiety are the biggest causes of misery in Britain today. They are the great submerged problems, which shame keeps out of sight.

Therapy could 'cut benefits bill' (BBC News)

A new report suggests improving psychotherapy provision could get more people back to work

Depression and schizophrenia 'should be treated with therapy' (Guardian Unlimited)

Psychological therapy should be offered to every person in the country with depression, anxiety or schizophrenia, says a report from an influential group of health professionals published today.

Money Saving Ideas

WNEP-TV 16 - Although the link between seafood consumption and improved health has been known for decades, a number of recent studies are shedding new light on the many health benefits of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish. Considered essential nutrients ...

FDA: GSK drug can wipe away winter blues

Triangle Business Journal - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the expanded use of a GlaxoSmithKline anti-depressant to include treatment of "seasonal depression." GSK's Wellbutrin XL, which has already been approved by the FDA for treatment of major depressive ...

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