The US Preventive Services Task Force says the rate of depression in children between 12 and 18 years old is high enough to warrant routine screening by their primary care physicians.  The recommendation, announced in …

Bullying is much more than kids just being kids.  For Eric Mohat, it was a matter of life and death.  His classmates taunted him unmercifully and school officials did little to stop it.  One day, …

Many a new mother suffers the ravages of postpartum depression just when her new baby demands the most attention.  Until recently, there’s been little physical evidence to determine which mothers are most at risk of …

A recent study conducted at the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute indicates a connection between a woman’s emotional well-being during early pregnancy and the chance she will deliver a child prematurely. These preterm births, occurring …

The number of white, middle-aged American men and women committing suicide increased by 35% from 1999 to 2005, according to the latest issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The rate of suicide …

Teenagers who exhibit symptoms of insomnia are more likely than other teens to develop depression or problems with substance abuse or to entertain thoughts of suicide by the time they reach early adulthood, according to …

In the past 10 years, the use of antidepressant drugs has tripled in the United States, where one in 10 women takes at least one antidepressant, according to National Center for Health Statistics’ 2004 Health …

Ask a depressed woman if she’d take Viagra to invigorate a faded libido caused by the antidepressants she’s taking to keep the blues away and she’s likely to say the proposition sounds like a pretty …

Researchers at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have documented such a strong association between diabetes and depression that the research team suggests new treatment options targeting the combined diseases might prove to be more effective …

On April 16, 2007 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, shot to death 32 students and faculty members, wounded many more, and then committed suicide. From an early …