Most Recent Articles in Depression category

  • Is Your Personality Making You Sick? - By: Sandra Prior
    Research into how our personality affects our health has produced some interesting findings. For instance, being cheerful isn't necessarily good for you.
  • Work Stress? It's a State of Mind - By: Sandra Prior
    It may be that events at work conspire against you - but it's how you respond to them that makes all the difference. It all comes down to attitude. Each of our attitudes is like a pebble thrown into the still waters of the pond, creating a ripple effect all around us.
  • What Can Be Done about Depression in Alzheimer's Disease? - By: John Scott
    The article considers whether there is any evidence that Zoloft may assist people who have Alzheimer's Disease and are depressed. It concludes that the limited evidence is quite encouraging.
  • Learning from the past - By: John Scott
    The article looks back to 1994 when the cost of anxiety disorders to the US economy was $65 billion. Because public health care is underfunded, treatments have focused on oral medications as the cheap solution rather than expensive behavioural therapy which has a better chance of a cure.
  • A new study shows insomnia is more persistent - By: John Scott
    The article considers a twenty year study into insomnia which found that sleep loss continued and worsened over time, and that it was often followed by depression.
  • What is the story behind pre-emption? - By: John Scott
    The article visits the thorny legal question of pre-emption in relation to the liability of drug companies. It concludes that the Supreme Court should allow people injured by medications to sue.
  • How do you stay at the top of your league? - By: John Scott
    The article notes that the Neurogen Corp., a biotech company based in Connecticut, has just laid off forty-five staff and raised $30m so that it can afford to pay for the trials to prove the worth of a competitor to Ambien (and three other medications). Is the gamble worth the jobs of forty-five employees?
  • Instead of counting sheep, we should be counting prescriptions - By: John Scott
    The article wonders why insomnia seems to have become an epidemic. Millions of prescriptions a day are written around the world. Perhaps it is the 24/7 lifestyle or that we worry too much. Whatever it is, the world as a whole is suffering from lack of sleep.
  • Should DUI Become DUIA? - By: John Scott
    The articles notes a paper presented in the March meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science which identified ambien as one of the top ten drugs found in blood samples following arrests for traffic offences. It seems that "sleep driving" may be a new danger to other road users.
  • Prejudice and disability - By: John Scott
    The article reflects on the nature of disability and considers why many for suffer from anxiety and panic attacks fail to complete the course of treatment