| TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Women prescribed tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil and its generic equivalents because of a potentially dangerous drug interaction, a study suggests.
(The New York Times News Service) -- When the public pays the bill, who decides whether a pricey new drug is worth the cost?
(NewsRx.com) -- Women participating in the Women's Health Initiative study who reported taking an antidepressant drug had a small but statistically significant increase in the risk of stroke and of death compared with participants not taking antidepressants. The authors of a report in the December 14 Archives of Internal Medicine note that their findings are not conclusive but may signify a need for additional attention to patients' cardiovascular risk factors.
ATLANTA (AP) -- About 1 in 110 children have autism, according to the government's latest estimate released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ST. PETERSBURG (The New York Times News Service) -- Parker Fox isn't surprised that more than half of his classmates say they have used illegal drugs.
DETROIT (AP) -- A decade-long decline in teens' use of pot has stalled and some teen attitudes on how harmful marijuana can be may be softening, according to a federal survey on teen drug use released Monday.
HAMBURG (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- German scientists have discovered how childhood stress genetically alters kids so that they become stressed-out adults.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) - The most wonderful time of the year isn't so wonderful if you're hurting.
(NewsRx.com) -- A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking (see also King's College London).
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Larry Pederson grew up in the small Canadian city of Medicine Hat and "really suffered" mood-wise in the winters. But things grew even worse when he moved 400 miles north to study pre-medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Concerned that American men may be embracing the same kind of misguided sex-hormone use that brought calamity to women, the government is funding a national study to see whether older men with low testosterone benefit from boosting it.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Luis Gutierrez is sounding like a human kazoo, demonstrating what he calls the "evilbuster breath." As the speaker's hands tent his nose and he exhales in a loud hum, few of the two dozen freshmen at Overfelt High in San Jose are smirking or rolling their eyes.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries -- signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
ALBANY, N.Y. (The New York Times News Service)-- The science of addiction is as stark as multicolored scans of the brains of chronic alcoholics.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Children on widely used psychiatric drugs can quickly gain an alarming amount of weight; many pack on nearly 20 pounds and become obese within just 11 weeks, a study found.
LOS ANGELES (USA TODAY) -- Jennifer O'Brien wasn't in her theater seat 20 minutes when she realized she'd made a mistake bringing her daughter.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Facing academic pressures, navigating new and changing relationships, and balancing responsibilities long have been worries at college.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The topic of suicide makes many people squirm. It's something we've been told we're not supposed to talk about. If you speak it, someone might do it.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Unemployed people are four times more likely to experience severe mental-health issues, including depression, than people with jobs, according to a survey released yesterday by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health America.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigorous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use.
(NewsRx.com) -- A new report from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is published by Elsevier in the September-October 2009 issue of General Hospital Psychiatry, explores the management of pregnancy and depression.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders -- higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in 150.
LONDON (AP) -- About half of heroin and crack cocaine addicts in England's treatment programs quit the drugs after six months, a new study says.
(Chicago Daily Herald) -- The number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled to 10.1 percent of the U.S. population in 2005 compared with 1996, increasing across income and age groups, a study found.
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease. It's no secret that smoking deteriorates one's health, yet kicking the bad habit remains a difficult task. New research reveals how your own memories may make quitting even harder.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Most workers who have lost their jobs during the recession have borrowed money from friends and family, have lost sleep and don't have health insurance, according to a Rutgers University study released today.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- A Yale University physician is attending the Military Health Research Forum in Kansas City, Mo., this week to present her work helping veterans who suffer from both post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Calls to poison control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows.
(USA TODAY) -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of a president and U.S. senators, was lauded after her death Tuesday for a towering achievement of her own: ending the stigma associated with mental disabilities.
MINNEAPOLIS (The New York Times News Service) -- Ashley Bystrom was terrified of germs. Jared Kant worried his own thoughts could hurt other people.
(NewsRx.com) -- Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some cases, death (see also University at Buffalo).
CHICAGO (AP) -- Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- She was sociable and happy in high school. But in college that changed abruptly: Depressed and withdrawn, some days she couldn't get out of bed.
(USA TODAY) -- Veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia compared with veterans who don't have the disorder, a study reports today.
LONDON (AP) -- Thousands of people with schizophrenia worldwide could have been saved if doctors had prescribed them the anti-psychotic drug clozapine, a new study says.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Irregular heartbeat. Prostate cancer. Back pain. Hearing loss. The government is about to spend millions to try to uncover the best treatments for scores of ailments -- and how to handle these four biggies leads a list of top 100 questions that doctors need answered.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- There is a school of thought that says having an entire condo tower floor or apartment building to one's self might be fun.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Increasingly powerful antipsychotic drugs available on the market, and growing evidence that starting these medications early can help children with conditions like bipolar disorder, is putting doctors under more pressure than ever to diagnose and treat young people with mental illnesses.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Judy Pickens' tender attention to her two sick children delighted the medical staff at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk of sudden death.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics wants doctors to take an active role in preventing bullying in schools and violence among dating teenagers.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Nothing like having the whole world watching to increase stress levels. And more stress means more troubles: mental breakdowns, physical illness, relationship woes.
(USA TODAY) -- Children of parents with anxiety disorders are up to seven times more likely than others to develop anxiety problems themselves, research shows, and children of depressed parents also are at high risk for becoming depressed.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Depression symptoms have disappeared for four of 10 patients taking part in a new treatment approach offered by family doctors in Minnesota.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Adult survivors of childhood cancer who most need mammograms and other tests to watch for second cancers are less likely to follow screening recommendations than the general public or even their healthy siblings, a new study finds.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
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