A new study has found that a widely used depression screening questionnaire is accurate for people with and without chronic pain, debunking a common misconception that the screening inflates ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in this country. it affects at least 21 million adults. The numbers are slightly higher among women than men and ...

A new blood test tracking immune cell aging may offer an objective way to detect depression before symptoms manifest.

Have you experienced any depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? Do you think you could be suffering from clinical depression? If so, you might want to consider filling out a brief Patient Health ...

The University of Wyoming Counseling Center is promoting Mental Health Awareness Week, Oct. 5-9, and National Depression Screening Day Thursday, Oct. 8, by offering ...

A woman walks into a clinic for a routine blood draw. Weeks later, a lab report flags something unexpected: the immune cells in her sample are aging faster than they should be for someone her age. No ...

In a new guideline, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) “strongly” recommended against screening all adults with a standardized tool for depression, stating instead that ...

What Is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)? The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is an easy-to-take, self-administered questionnaire that you can use to screen yourself, or a ...

Depression and anxiety have been well documented in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), but often are undiagnosed or untreated. A machine learning model may help by analyzing routinely collected ...

Completing a routine depression screening questionnaire during an annual checkup is cost-free under federal law. But, as one woman discovered,... She talked about depression at a checkup — and got ...