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Tackling Depression at Work as a Productivity Strategy

Depression tops the list of health-related productivity costs in the workplace. That was the finding in a medical study shortly after the economy tanked in the 2008 recession, and it’s no different now. The annual cost of depress [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Local doctor says new treatment for depression is working

NEW ORLEANS -- We all know what it's like to feel sad. But serious depression is different. Patients can't concentrate, lose memory and have no motivation to do things they used to enjoy. But now treatment has come to the area tha [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Workings Of The Antidepressants

An antidepressant is generally used as a psychiatric medication which is consumed in order to decrease depression or dysthymia that is commonly known as the milder depression. The antidepressants are normally consumed as a course continui [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

US study: working mothers less depressed

Working mothers have better health and fewer symptoms of depression than stay-at-home moms, a new study indicates. The researchers also found that mothers with part-time jobs can balance work and nurturing their children better than those [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Workplace discomfort in dealing with depression

The survey, by the organisation beyondblue, reveals 40 per cent of Australian professionals feel uncomfortable working closely with someone who has depression. Of the 18,000 people surveyed, engineers were the most likely to stigmati [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression in the workplace: don't ask, don't tell?

By all appearances Sandy was successful and content. At 30 years old, she was in a senior position at a major media company in Boston -- and she was a happily married new mom to boot. But her life was less charmed than it seemed. [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Which Medicine Will Work for Depression?

Depressed Americans try medication after medication to find an effective treatment. A new test alleviates the hassle of finding the right medicine by predicting a drug’s success before it's prescribed by the doctor. Each year 15 milli [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Genes help placebos work in depression patients

Some combination of biological and psychological factors was thought to be responsible for why placebos, sugar pills designed to gauge the effectiveness of the actual medication, work for some people and not for others. Now researchers have [...]

Posted On : Jul, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Depression Disables Working Age Finns

Depression lands more people into early retirement than any other illness. Hasse Karlsson, a psychiatry professor at Helsinki University, says depression can be categorised in line with serious illnesses, including heart attacks, in t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Depression hits a quarter of workers

More than one worker in four has personal experience of depression. It has affected 28pc of the Irish workforce, according to the Lundbeck Mental Health Barometer. Up to half feared that employers would not be tolerant of a worker sufferi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

Husbands Help Beat Work Stress

If cranky kids and work stress for working women is driving them up the wall all the time then here is a good news for all the working women out there, loving and caring husbands are now a source for working women to shed their stress [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

Depression prompts one in five workers to take time off, stu...

More than one quarter of Canadian workers say they have been diagnosed with depression or believe they are suffering from it.But most say their depression was triggered not by their workplace but by a single life event such as divorce or a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2007 | Comments : 0

Study finds depression treatment aids productivity in the wo...

Employers who screen and guide depressed workers through treatment options reap an average of three extra weeks of productivity from each of those employees per year, according to the first national study designed to measure whether such in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Depression Pushes Middle-Aged Workers to Retire

- In many cases, depression is a deciding factor for men and women considering retirement, according to new research.Middle-aged men who suffer with symptoms of depression are more likely to retire early, while retirement-age women often ta [...]