Premenopausal women with even mild depression have less bone mass than do their nondepressed peers.

FDA approved the supplemental New Drug Application for ABILIFY as adjunctive, or add-on, treatment to antidepressant therapy in adults with major depressive disorder.

Military service in a war zone increases service members' chances of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), other anxiety disorders, and depression.

Fabre-Kramer Pharmaceuticals Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline announced that FDA has issued a not approvable letter for the new drug application for gepirone extended-release (ER) tablets.

Rates of depression among full-time workers are highest in personal care and service jobs and food preparation and serving occupations.

Health Department launched a new awareness campaign to help de-stigmatize mental health problems and promote positive coping strategies among young Latinas, who suffer from depression at higher rates than other groups.

Depression is disabling a growing proportion of children, but evidence on treatment is disputed

Are antidepressants effective as treatments for mentally ill children and adolescents? Are they harmful? These questions have been the topic of immense public debate and are of considerable public health importance.

To learn more about the role of antidepressants in the treatment of children and adolescents living with mental illnesses, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Trials Network (CAPTN) is launching the first independently funded large-scale safety registry to track antidepressant use among youth.

A combination of psychotherapy and antidepressant medication appears to be the most effective treatment for adolescents with major depressive disorder.

Sscientists have a major new clue as to where the long-pursued binding site for commonly used antidepressants may be on brain cells.

Men in late middle age with depressive symptoms are more likely to leave the labor force than men without such symptoms are.

Enhanced and systematic efforts to identify and treat depression in the workplace significantly improves employee health and productivity, likely leading to lower costs overall for the employer.

Existing SSRI-class drugs, widely prescribed as anti-depressants, can take up to six weeks to become effective, with potentially serious clinical consequences.

Depression is not only emotionally debilitating. Depression is more physically damaging than many chronic diseases.

The current threshold for what is considered to be 'clinical depression' is too low, could lead to a diagnosis of depression becoming less credible.