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Depressed People Can Benefit from Vitamin D

A deficiency of any vitamin will have an ill effect on our health. The lack of vitamin D has been linked to diabetes, some types of cancer, heart disease, and now depression. It is not known whether the link is causative, but depressed pe [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Smoking may help people regain self-control

Researchers have suggested that smoking may help restore self-control by improving smokers’ positive mood, which may contribute to tobacco addiction. When researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., deplete smokers’ s [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Some depressed people do worse on medications: study

Researchers found that patients' symptoms over the first couple months of antidepressant use separated them into "responders," who got progressively better, and "non-responders," who didn't improve with treatme [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Effective care for older people with depression

Under the £1.6 million CASPER project, the York Mental Health Research Group – a partnership between the University’s Department of Health Sciences and the Hull York Medical School – is examining the effectiveness [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Tai chi presumably tackles depression in elderly people

Over the past years, a tremendous rise in depressed individuals has been reported. In an attempt to reduce depression, UCLA scientists discovered that a weekly tai chi exercise class along with a standard depression treatment greatly ben [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Depressed people urged to seek help

People who plunge in to post-Christmas depression have been urged to seek help before emotional and financial pressures reach crisis point. A suicide prevention helpline revealed more people call for support in the first three months of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

'Other People': A Family Portrait Of Depression

"Every family has a secret and the secret is that it's not like other families," Alan Bennett writes in A Life Like Other People's. This family memoir, extracted from his 2006 autobiographical volume, Untold Stori [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Eat healthy foods - older people urged

The HSE West’s health promotion department is urging older people to make healthy food choices. “‘Food just doesn’t taste the same anymore.’ ‘It’s too much trouble to cook for one person.’ &ls [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Depressed people less likely to crave for pleasure

People, who suffer from anhedonia, a key symptom of depression, are less likely to pursue rewards if there is any need to put an effort to obtain them, according to new study. The research has indicated that decreased cravings for pl [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

No, Fat People Won't Pay for Health Care Reform

In recent days, the health care debate has shifted back to an idea that's been kicking around since Barack Obama first started talking about universal coverage on the campaign trail: Let's stick fatties with the tab. The director of the Cen [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

The heart disease mutation carried by 60 million people

Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. It is estimated that the highest death rates in India are associated with problems of the heart and blood circulatory system in people aged 35–64 years. According to a conservative [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers

The President's Emergency Plan for HIV-AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been mired in the Senate for months. Last week finally brought signs that a vote, and passage, could be near. The program would cost $50 billion that's $165 from each American [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

Brits are the most fast-food obsessed people in the world

When it comes to fast food nobody likes it more than the Britons, for a new survey has revealed that they savoured ‘the taste of fast food too much to give it up’.The survey, conducted by global marketing research group Sy [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Common cold virus could be making people fat

A common virus from the group that often causes the common cold may also help to make some people obese, according to new research.Scientists in the US have discovered that an adenovirus, known as Ad36, can transform adult stem cells in fat [...]