Risk Factors for Recurrence of Depression

Depression is a common mental health disorder that negatively affects daily functioning and quality of life. Unfortunately, depression is often a recurrent disorder. Current treatment guidelines are based on clinical features of the disease, but new evidence points to sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics that influence the severity and prognosis of depression.  Specifically, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal highlights smoking and a feeling of lack of control over one’s life as significant...

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Eating less 'can boost your brain and help you remember more'

Eating less could help you remember more, researchers have found. Skipping dessert and having an after-dinner coffee instead could also be good for your brain, as well as your waistline. The news comes from an Italian study into ‘calorific restriction’ – the idea that near-starvation rations boost health and extend life.  Scientists have long known of the phenomenon, but have struggled to work out just what it is about severely cutting calories that improves health. Researcher Giovambattista Pani decided to focus on a protein called...

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Loud iPods overtake noisy workplaces as most common cause of hearing damage

Loud iPods overtake noisy workplaces as most common cause of hearing damage Millions of commuters risk hearing damage because they have set the volume level too high on their MP3 players. In the past, loud workplaces were blamed for causing the majority of harmful noise.  However, researchers at Michigan University in the US found that noise from MP3 players has overtaken as the biggest danger to hearing. Occupational health experts found nine out of 10 people using public transport were exposed to excessive noise through listening...

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Young mother, 20, dies after taking 'a few extra paracetamol' to help cope with br*ast surgery pain

A young mother died from liver failure following routine surgery after she took 'a few extra tablets' of paracetamol each day to cope with the pain. Desiree Phillips, 20, had a number of benign lumps on her br*ast removed earlier this year. Doctors prescribed antibiotics and over-the-counter paracetamol to help her cope with the discomfort. Her family suspected she was taking just ‘a few extra tablets’ a day before she was admitted to hospital with a failing liver nine days after the operation. The single mother, from Llanelli, South Wales,...

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