Couple Hikes The Sierra Nevada For Depression Awareness
Interview with Jeff Alt, author of “A Hike for Mike,” who hikes the John Muir Trail across the Sierra Nevad mountain rante to spread the word that depression is treatable.

Health Talk - A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue

STAR*D Findings May Guide Treatment Recommendations
Psychiatric News - The results of the first phase of STAR * D provokes the question: What do you do with the two-thirds of patients who do not go into remission after an initial trial of an SSRI? The answer is expected to lie in phases two through four. A. John Rush, M

Scientist offers home
New Kerala - BRISBANE, Australia: A University of Queensland researcher is offering depression sufferers across Australia a free, at-home confidential treatment program. “The yearlong program is for adults who are not depressed at the moment, but who have had

Scientist offers home depression treatment
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Jan 18, 2006 BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) — A University of Queensland researcher is offering depression sufferers across Australia a free, at-home confidential treatment

Hope for depression?
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Jan 17, 2006 But Robert "Skip" Cummins, the company's chief executive officer, said the effort to promote the device's use for depression treatment is not about money.

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AstraZeneca Submits sNDA for SEROQUEL(R) for Bipolar Depression
PR Newswire UK (press release), UK - Jan 3, 2006 AstraZeneca today announced submission of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to seek approval for a new

CATIE Phase I Helps Clinicians Tailor Schizophrenia Treatment
Psychiatric Times, CA - Jan 12, 2006 (2004), Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS

Health Talk - A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue

Drugs & Devices: Guidant Woes
Red Herring - Guidant , the target of a fierce bidding war between Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific , said Monday that a seal on some of its older pacemakers could be susceptible to more failure than first reported to the federal government. The company

Run For Your Life From The Mental Illness Ghetto
Psychiatric rehabilitation programs can be a hidden trap.