Latest Health Articles for Depression

• Depressed astronauts might get computerized solace

  article 2008-10-25  |  Author: Jay Lindsay
  Your work is dangerous and your co-workers rely on you to stay alive. But you can never get far from those colleagues. You can't see your family for months, even years. The food isn't great. And forget stepping out for some fresh air.No wonder the adventure of space flight can ...

• Will tax scandal take down NY gov.'s top aide?

  article 2008-10-23  |  Author: Michael Gormley
  Charles O'Byrne is a powerful and enigmatic figure in New York politics. He's an openly gay ex-priest who assailed the Catholic Church in Playboy, a confidant to the Kennedy clan, the muscle behind Gov. David Paterson.Now, O'Byrne's failure to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes has become a ...

• HIV-positive Indian couple commits suicide

  article 2008-08-09  |  Author: Staff
  An Indian couple poisoned their three young children, then hung themselves from a ceiling fan because they were depressed about being HIV-positive, police said Saturday.A relative found the bodies of Ishwar Thevar, 39, a film distributor, and his wife as well as their two sons and a daughter ...

• Overwork-linked suicides in Japan have doubled over the past five years, report says

  article 2008-05-24  |  Author: Mari Yamaguchi
  The number of Japanese who committed or attempted suicide due to overwork and stress has doubled in the past five years, a government report published Saturday said.The Health Ministry report said 81 people killed themselves or attempted suicide in 2007 — compared with 40 in 2003 — due to work-related ...

• TV Lookout: highlights (and lowlights) for May 18-24

  article 2008-05-17  |  Author: Frazier Moore
  For an illness shared by so many, clinical depression should be better understood and more openly addressed.Even so, a social stigma and shame is still linked to this disorder on the part of its sufferers, who include some 15 million American adults, the vast majority of whom seek ...

• Louisiana teenager accused of poisoning teacher

  article 2008-05-16  |  Author: Staff
  A 16-year-old student is accused of poisoning his teacher, who went to the hospital with "severe intestinal distress" after the teen spiked a soft drink with eye drops, authorities said.Investigators said the Concordia Education Center student is alleged to have put about three-fourths of a bottle of eye drops into ...

• Mother accused of suffocating autistic girl, 3, was having psychotic episode, doctor says

  article 2008-01-15  |  Author: Staff
  A mother was severely depressed and experiencing a psychotic episode when she suffocated her autistic 3-year-old daughter with a garbage bag, a doctor testified Monday at the woman's murder trial.Karen McCarron was haunted by thoughts that she was responsible for Katherine "Katie" McCarron's autism, defense witness Dr. Joseph ...