Over half of college students would try to ’sort out’ depression alone while over one-third would try to ignore the condition if affected, the results of a new survey have shown.
The results were released to coincide with the launch of the health education campaign, ‘Mind Yourselves’, which is aimed at the one in 13 students [...]

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Antidepressants are far less effective than doctors and the public may have been led to believe, a new study has claimed.
Eighty – eight per cent of clinical trials that showed the drugs were less than effective either were not published in medical journals or were presented as positive findings, according to the study in the [...]

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As many as 400,000 people in Ireland have depression at any one time, support group, Aware, has said.
It has just launched its annual Depression Awareness Week Nationwide (DAWN). This is the biggest DAWN campaign ever held – it will include television, radio and outdoor advertising.
According to Aware, the estimated number of people affected by depression [...]

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Women are more likely to become depressed while they are pregnant, rather than after their babies are born, new research indicates.
Over 9,000 women were assessed at weeks 18 and 32 of their pregnancy and then again eight weeks and eight months after their children were born.
The results found that almost 12% of women had probable [...]

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