| TOKYO (Canadian Press) -- Suicides and other depression cases cost Japan's economy about 2.7 trillion yen ($32 billion) last year, the government said Wednesday, releasing such data for the first time in a bid to raise public awareness of the nation's long-battled social woe.
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) -- Merck & Co. says its schizophrenia drug Saphris has been approved for two additional uses by the Food and Drug Administration.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Whether you're sporting a cropped cut or long curls, your hair may do more than reflect your personal style - researchers say it may serve as a means to measure stress.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (USA TODAY) -- Football fans understand when a player is forced to the sidelines with torn knee ligaments. They grasp the severity of groin injuries, sports hernias and ruptured Achilles tendons. Clinical depression?
(USA TODAY) -- Poring over crossword puzzles, reading and listening to tunes may slow or delay brain decline at first, but being mentally active might speed up dementia once it hits, new research suggests.
HAMBURG (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Depression can heighten the risk of developing type 2 diabetes as the mental illness also increases the likelihood of obesity and failing to take enough exercise, a study carried out by the German Diabetes Association (DDG) has shown.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-pyschotic called Seroquel.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A startling number of Gulf coast area children displaced by Hurricane Katrina still have serious emotional or behavioral problems five years later, a new study found.
FORT HOOD, Texas (USA TODAY) -- Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month.
(The New York Times News Service) -- It has been known for some years that people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Associated Press) -- In a story Aug. 10 about an apparent increase in attacks on nurses and other emergency room workers, The Associated Press erroneously identified the University of Cincinnati professor who is helping the federal government study the problem. Her correct name is Donna Gates, not Donna Graves.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleveland hospital.
BERLIN (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- When you are depressed, everything around you really does look grey, according to a team of German scientists who say that depression causes changes in vision.
MYRTLE GROVE, La. (AP) -- A boom from the speakers at church was all it took to send Paula Walker back to that moment of horror on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
(The New York Times News Service) -- The prescription painkiller oxycodone killed more Floridians than ever last year, and nowhere was that more evident than Pinellas and Pasco counties.
(USA TODAY) -- For humans, the psychological effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be as devastating as the physical, say experts who will speak at an Institute of Medicine workshop today in New Orleans.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Donovan Johns was 3 years old when he was diagnosed with autism after his parents noticed he struggled with speaking, expressing his needs and interacting with others.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- The Pentagon has failed to comply with a congressional directive to give all troops tests before and after they serve in combat to measure their thinking abilities and uncover possible brain injuries, military records show.
(Daily Mail) -- A simple test that would revolutionise the diagnosis of autism could be available within just three years.
(USA TODAY) -- College students today show less empathy toward others compared with college students in decades before, a study from the University of Michigan says.
BEIJING (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The tenth employee of the year jumped to his death at an electronics factory in southern China, hours after the conglomerate's chairman visited the plant to try to stem a rash of suicides there.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- The effects of abuse, poverty and neglect that some kids carry with them to school can be like an extra backpack weighing heavily on weak shoulders.
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- Federal regulators have accepted an application for a depression drug marketed by Clinical Data Inc., the company said Monday.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- Dr. Amanda Smith is a specialist in treating Alzheimer's disease, so she's accustomed to desperate families grasping at hope as they watch their loved ones disappear into dementia.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Could a once-a-month alcoholism shot keep some of the highest-risk heroin addicts from relapse? A drug that wakes up narcoleptics treat cocaine addiction? An old antidepressant fight methamphetamine?
(USA TODAY) -- Just as many new fathers as mothers develop postpartum depression, and about one in 10 parents have the condition, a new study says.
(USA TODAY) -- After age 50, daily stress and worry take a dive and happiness increases, according to an analysis of more than 340,000 adults questioned about the emotions they experienced "yesterday."
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Rosalynn Carter wasn't looking for a cause to champion. She just wanted votes for her husband.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Some Georgians could soon be carrying a unique driver's license -- one that says they have post-traumatic stress disorder.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- They call him the angry guy now. Even his friends. And at this moment, on a snowy evening when he should be home, putting his son to bed, Andrew Pogany is, in fact, ticked off.
LONDON (AP) -- A new autism disease identified in a flawed paper linking a common children's vaccine to autism, may not exist, new research says.
GOLDEN, Colo. (The New York Times News Service) -- Ricky Heilbron is racing a timer as he shoves metal pegs into a wooden board. The 9-year-old wears blue-tinted glasses and a buzzer on his left ear -- visual and audio stimulation for the right side of his brain.
(The New York Times News Service) -- San Francisco -- Too many young people with serious eating disorders are being given "catch-all" diagnoses that could underestimate the severity of their illness and prevent them from getting the best possible treatment, a Stanford researcher says.
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