Doctors make bad patients
9/5/2008 |
A study has highlighted a grim, rarely talked-about problem: that the medical know-how doctors learn in order to save lives makes them especially good at ending their own.
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Bipolar disorder overdiagnosed
8/5/2008 |
Is bipolar disorder becoming a popular illness? A study shows that it is being overdiagnosed and, in some cases, medication for the illness is also being overprescribed.
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Nightclub drug to treat depression?
5/5/2008 |
Scientists have unravelled how a horse tranquiliser and hallucinogenic night club drug known as 'Special K' can ease depression.
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Prozac reviving brain cells?
18/4/2008 |
The antidepressant Prozac has been shown to restore old brain cells to their more plastic youthful condition in animal experiments, researchers report.
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More websites encourage suicide
11/4/2008 |
Research shows people searching the Internet for information about suicide methods are more likely to find sites encouraging suicide than those offering help or support.
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Blood test to diagnose depression
12/3/2008 |
A simple blood test may be enough to diagnose depression and quickly determine whether antidepressant drugs are working, researchers claim.
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Suicide kills more than wars
6/3/2008 |
While death from war, terrorism and homicide crowd the headlines, at more than a million deaths per year suicide outstrips them all, but gets scant attention, an expert warned.
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Antidepros don't work - study
26/2/2008 |
Anti-depressant drugs like Prozac, used by millions of people worldwide, are hardly more effective than placebos in treating most cases of depression, a study has found.
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Genes key to antidepros?
11/2/2008 |
Researchers have discovered that genetic factors may explain why some individuals take well to anti-depressants and others complain of bad side-effects.
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Depression tied to early death
6/2/2008 |
A new study suggests that older adults with a history of depression may live a shorter life than those without the disorder.
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