|
News Feeds |
|
Depression News From Medical News Today
|
Latest Depression News From Medical News Today.
|
-
Using Chronic Care Model Helps To Improve People's Health And Care
Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, knew there had to be a better way. He and Group Health colleagues set out 15 years ago to explore how best to engage patients with chronic diseases in effective care. With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support, they developed the Chronic Care Model. More than 1,500 U.S. and international medical practices have adopted the Model. Now the largest roundup of evidence on how the Model performs in practice confirms that it works.
-
Childhood Trauma And Risk For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Connected By Biological Link
Childhood trauma is a potent risk factor for development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), according to a study by researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study is published in the Jan. 5, 2009Archives of General Psychiatry. Results of the study confirm that childhood trauma, particularly emotional maltreatment and sexual abuse, is associated with a six-fold increased risk for CFS.
-
Suicide Rate In England And Wales 'fell After London Bombings'
The suicide rate in England and Wales fell after the London bombings on 7 July 2005, according to new research published in the January issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. A second significant reduction also coincided with the second wave of terrorist attacks on 21 July, researchers found. Previous studies have shown that terrorist attacks can have substantial effects on suicide rates.
-
1 In 4 Australian Children Have A Parent With A Mental Illness
Almost a quarter of Australian children are living with a parent who has a mental illness, according to new research published in the January issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin. Of these, just over 1 % (or approximately 60,000 children) have a parent who has a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, manic depression or clinical depression.
-
Flowering Plants Speed Post-surgery Recovery
Contact with nature has long been suspected to increase positive feelings, reduce stress, and provide distraction from the pain associated with recovery from surgery. Now, research has confirmed the beneficial effects of plants and flowers for patients recovering from abdominal surgery. A recent study by Seong-Hyun Park and Richard H.
-
Family Rejection Of Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual Children Linked To Poor Health In Early Childhood
For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood. The findings will be published in the January issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a peer-reviewed article entitled "Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young Adults.
-
Well-Developed Community Mental-Health Services Are Associated With Lower Suicide Rates
Well-developed community mental-health services are associated with lower suicide rates than are services oriented towards inpatient treatment provision in hospitals. Thus population mental health can be improved by the use of multi-faceted, community-based, specialised mental-health services.
-
Economic Downturn To Increase Pressure On General Practice, Warn GP Managers In The UK
UK general practice will face increased pressures as a result of the economic downturn, according to a survey of 220 UK practice managers published in the latest issue of Management in Practice, the leading information resource for general practice managers. Seven in 10 respondents to the survey, sponsored independently by the Royal Bank of Scotland (see www.managementinpractice.com/surveys), said they expected to see a drop in their practice's profits next year.
-
New 'Smart' Materials For The Brain
Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, are a promising step forward in the search to find ways to "bypass" faulty brain wiring. The research shows that carbon nanotubes, which, like neurons, are highly electrically conductive, form extremely tight contacts with neuronal cell membranes.
-
Research Finds Genetic Connection Between PTSD, Depression And Anxiety
Earthquakes have aftershocks - not just the geological kind but the mental kind as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. In 1988, a massive earthquake in Armenia killed 17,000 people and destroyed nearly half the town of Gumri.
|
|
