Depression News

Q: For several months I've had persistent itchiness on my back, arms and hands. I've tried lotions, antihistamines and cortisone cream, but nothing helps completely! What can I do? - Charlie P., Davenport, Iowa A: Researchers have started figuring out what chronic itching is all about.

With her first solo album in two decades, Jennifer Holliday is on the comeback trail.

Nearly one in 10 children are hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of a mental health condition, and depression alone accounts for $1.33 billion in hospital charges annually, according to a new analysis led by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

"It's an interesting juxtaposition," says Doug Thomas, director of the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

When you open the cover of this book you first see a copy of a handwritten suicide note, penned by the author in 2004.

In fact, depression is a term that is used so regularly in our everyday conversation that it has come to refer to the general sad mood that some people experience here and there in relation to specific triggers, such as a string of bad luck or a break up with a significant other.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Sheila M. Elred writes in Discovery Magazine that a recent study has found that people at risk of depression were much less vulnerable if they identified as religious.

The panel is from left to right: Judith Harrington, Emily Tucker, Erin Jones, Abby Litovsky and Kira Fonbah.

Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University greets Stanley N. Griffith who was in the audience to listen to her talk, Saturday, October 9, 2010.

On Tuesday, Eddie Reill y, 47, who worked as a trader at Vertical Group in New York City, threw himself off of a platform at the Long Island Rail Road's Syosset station, and was immediately hit by the oncoming commuter train.

Senior citizens window shop as they make their way down the a main street in Peterborough, Ont.

Depression affects one out of five Americans and is poised to become the biggest source of worldwide disability.

According to a study by researchers at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, symptoms of depression are associated with an increase in arterial stiffness induced by mental stress.

Adults with no previous history of depression can develop it late in life due to changes and loss es they experience.

But the singer, best known for her Tony-winning performance as Effie in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" and the iconic rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," wasn't always sure she wanted her career resurrected.

With her first solo album in two decades, Jennifer Holliday is on the comeback trail.

I'm generally an upbeat person, not given to bouts of sadness or melancholy, and, luckily, I've never suffered from serious depression.

Mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens, according to the results of a clinical trial intervention led by researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine children's hospital.

Jon Corzine testifies before a House Financial Services Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in this December 15, 2011, file photo.

The number of people taking antidepressant medication in Nelson and Marlborough has grown more than anywhere else in the country.