The FDA announced a shortage of the antidepressant Zoloft and its generic version, sertraline, as the coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in reports of depression and anxiety in the U.S. The FDA posted the announcement of the shortage to its website Friday, estimating that it will last about 60 days. The short supply of […]
As millions continue working from home during the pandemic or are required to report to jobs as essential employees, many have raised questions about how these work conditions impact our health—and not just as they relate to COVID-19. A new study from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that our mental health and […]
Older adults with depression may be at much higher risk of remaining depressed if they are experiencing persistent or worsening sleep problems, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers, who published their findings online April 30 in the journal Sleep, analyzed data from almost 600 people […]
An article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine looks at the relationship between burnout and depressive symptoms in medical interns. The article is authored by Constance Guille, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Lisa Rotenstein, M.D., an internal medicine […]
Two new studies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden underscore health risks associated with childhood obesity. Children with obesity have a three times higher risk of mortality in early adulthood compared with children in the general population and are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. The findings, published in PLOS Medicine and BMC Medicine, […]
Women’s health activists have warned that hundreds of thousands of patients were wrongly prescribed antidepressants. They have called for doctors to be better educated. But the Royal College of GPs insisted menopause was already included in their curriculum, insisting: “Mandatory training courses for some conditions and not others would be unworkable.” Diane Danzebrink, founder of […]
States are debating the value of a question inquiring about mental health on a questionnaire law students must fill out before they are deemed able to take the bar and become lawyers. According to one survey, 45% of law students do not seek mental health treatment out of fear it would affect bar admission for […]
THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2020 — Sedentary behavior throughout adolescence is associated with the risk for depressive symptoms at age 18 years, according to a study published online Feb. 11 in The Lancet Psychiatry. Aaron Kandola, from the University College London in the United Kingdom, and colleagues measured the amounts of time spent in sedentary behaviors […]
Jenny Mason-Frey had experienced panic attacks before—sudden waves of anxiety that set her heart racing, her head spinning and made her feel as if she was going to die. The Chicago woman learned to cope over the years by disengaging from whatever was occupying her. But when she had a panic attack a week after […]
