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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Institute Senior Research Associate Evette J. Ludman, PhD, the study leader, concluded that weight loss programs should not exclude depressed people. Dr...
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Dancing With Crazy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seriously, have you paid attention to anti-depressant commercials? They are hilarious. They start out with sad music and images of sad people and tell you about all the other people that your sadness makes sad. Then they give you hope - The Drug! The pill that will take it all away and make it all better. The images become happy, the people smile and dance around in the sunshine. They ride horses and...
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Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | yesterday
Research published in Harm Reduction Journal suggests that substituting cannabis in place of more harmful dugs could help in the fight against substance abuse. A poll of 350 cannabis users found that 40 percent used cannabis to control their alcohol cravings, 66 percent used it as a replacement for prescription drugs and 26 percent used it instead of more potent illegal drugs. Amanda Reiman , PhD,...
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Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | yesterday
An estimated 27 million to 30 million Americans--mostly adults, but Big Pharma is working on that!--take an anti-depressant each day. I once saw an estimate, one I cannot find right now, that several million people had been on anti-depressants for...
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The Medical Quack (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks as if Cymbalta is getting close to being an “everything-anything” drug when it comes to treating depression. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAD is now a “chronic condition”? In reading the last paragraph about the problems, it appears the economy and our current state of affairs could almost lay this diagnosis on anyone of us, controlling worry, irritability, sleep...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is very difficult to study the relative harms of individual drugs – and there are lots of vested interests The government claims to want to pursue "evidence-based policy". I've often wondered whether there is any evidence that evidence-based policy is better than its alternative. What alternative? Daily Mail-based policy, of course. The issue has been in the news lately because...
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Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
A few days ago, a man in Ohio was arrested following an explosion in his apartment, after which police discovered "about 35 pipe bombs, an assortment of firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition." In the intervening days, as far as I can tell (from my own watching), there has been zero coverage of this event in the national news. The news was carried by AP (link above), but wasn't "important"...
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Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Eli Lilly today announced that the FDA has approved its anti-depressant Cymbalta as a maintenance treatment for generalized anxiety disorder. That marks the sixth indication for the multi-billion selling drug, which is also approved for use in depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia...
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Neuroskeptic (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Icelandic academic and Neuroskeptic reader Steindór J. Erlingsson reports that thanks to his efforts, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK) has stopped distributing a booklet promoting the monoamine hypothesis of depression to pharmacies and doctors offices in Iceland. His report is here , and it has links to more details on the story, although these are in Icelandic, a language I'm unfortunately...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
As we are in the winter months older people in Ireland are being encouraged to look after their mental health and to seek help and support if they are feeling depressed most of the day, most days. Leading Old Age Psychiatrist Professor Brian Lawlor and advocacy group Age Action urged older people to address the issue of their mental health at the launch of the 'Mind Yourself - Depression in Later Life'...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Ari Kiev, a psychiatrist whose early work on depression and suicide prevention led to a career helping Wall Street traders and athletes achieve peak performance, died Nov. 18 in Manhattan.
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Integrity Way Halfway House (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
There are so many drug rehab center advertisements available online, on television, phone directory and newspapers that it may become confusing to know which one is really the best. Needless to say, one should always go for a drug rehab center that is well-known, registered and accredited. Find out from patients who have been treated in these centers to know if they have really been treated, and not...
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PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
BY CAMERON TAIT 24 Nov, 2009 09:25 AM FOLLOWING the birth of her first child Allegra two years ago, Jessica Rowe felt an overwhelming sense of anguish. While she put on a brave face, the television presenter's dark and sometimes obsessive thoughts started to spiral out of control. Strange things crossed her mind such as how easy it would be to hurt her baby, even though she knew she would never do...
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PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The deadline to submit nominations for this year's Welcome Back Awards, a national awards program that honors outstanding individuals in the depression community, has been extended by a month, with nominations now due by December 16, 2009. The Welcome Back Awards is a program established by Eli Lilly and Company to recognize outstanding achievements in the fight against depression and the stigma often...
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Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests. I recently (and unfortunately belatedly) came upon yet another example of suppression of research that was unfavorable to a research sponsor's vested interests, suggesting that such suppression may be more prevalent than heretofore believed....
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wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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ifp | 02/06/2009
The people of Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) are being consulted on a name change for the region. Tired of being responsible for an acronym, the President of PACA Michel Vauzelle has decided it is time to change the name of the region, and he has sought the views of its inhabitants to help him decide. He has barely made a secret of the fact that his own personal preference is the more economical
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