Depression

Is there a link between diabetes and depression? Researchers have found that diabetes and depression occur about twice as often together as they do without. Depression is more than just the normal stressors of everyday demands. It is a medical illness that causes feelings of sadness and can interfere with your daily home and work […]

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A new study suggests that some COVID-19 patients who suffer from prolonged symptoms after recovery, including anxiety, mood disorders, sleep problems and fatigue, are at a greater risk for depression. The study, conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that

Stephen Manlove, M.D., has been a psychiatrist for decades, but some years ago, he almost stepped away from the profession for good. Dr. Stephen Manlove He’d seen too many people struggle to find an effective treatment for their clinical depression. While commonly available antidepressants helped a percentage of his patients, there were many others who

Tracking poll shows working moms feel frozen as pandemic impact worsens TORONTO, March 15, 2021 /CNW/ – Mental health concerns are on the rise among Canada’s working women, especially mothers, as the COVID-19 pandemic persists, according to the latest Prosperity Project tracking poll. Conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights in partnership with The Prosperity Project and CIBC,

The rate of depression among college students was up to 90 percent higher in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to an analysis of how disruptions in students’ daily life affected their mental health. At highest risk for depression were students whose physical activity declined the most in that

Déjà vu! My late grandmother lived through the Great Depression and told me her story. President Hoover did little to help the suffering people from 1929-1932. In 1932 the Democratic governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, ran for president and offered hope. He won in a landslide. When he took office in 1933, he

Background The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged in Wuhan city, Hubei province of China, spread nationwide alarmingly on top of half a dozen in other countries between December 2019 and early 2020.1 On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic disease and call for countries to work

DALLAS, March 15, 2021 — Beta-blockers treat various cardiovascular diseases and were not more likely to cause depression compared to other similar treatments, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal. While depression may occur during beta-blocker therapy, the research suggests beta-blockers are not the likely cause. Beta-blockers are a

The pandemic has closed schools, offices, sports arenas and limited social interaction for millions of people — perhaps an even bigger struggle for young people more used to being active. In a recent survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 63% of 18- to-24-year-olds reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, with 25%

A link has been found between depression and stomach ulcers in one of the largest ever trial looking at of genetic factors in peptic ulcer disease. A team from the University of Queensland (UQ) say they have found evidence to suggest that the gut and brain work together in a way that has never before