• Accutane not found to increase suicide risk: study

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 12, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Acne drug not found to increase suicide risk Reference: Association of suicide attempts with acne and treatment with isotretinoin: retrospective Swedish cohort study

  • Perimenopausal mood changes are real, not imagined

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 12 , 2010 [display_podcast] Source: When Anxiety, Insomnia Aren’t Just in Your Head

  • Depression's effect on society

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 22, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Ottawa ‘depression capital of Canada’

  • Ketamine contributes to understanding of pathways that can alleviate depression

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 20, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: ‘Magic drug’ gives hope to bipolar patients Reference: “mTOR-Dependent Synapse Formation Underlies the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of NMDA Antagonists.” Nanxin Li, Boyoung Lee, Rong-Jian Liu, Mounira Banasr, Jason M. Dwyer, Masaaki Iwata, Xiao-Yuan Li, George Aghajanian, Ronald S. Duman Science, 20 August 2010: Vol. 329.…

  • Fish oil trial shows some benefit for people with depression but without anxiety

    Madely Health Headlines for June 22, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Fish oil might offer new way to treat depression Reference: The Efficacy of Omega-3 Supplementation for Major Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • New understanding how cannabis may affect brain chemistry and its relation to mood disorder risk

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 18, 2009 [display_podcast] Source: New study suggests cannabis use by teens damages brain worse than suspected Reference: Chronic exposure to cannabinoids during adolescence but not during adulthood impairs emotional behaviour and monoaminergic neurotransmission

  • Meds put seniors at higher risk of falls

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 25, 2009 [display_podcast]   Source: Meds put seniors at higher risk of falls   Reference: Meta-analysis of the Impact of 9 Medication Classes on Falls in Elderly Persons

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 7, 2009

  • Health effects of shift work

    Does shift work affect a person’s physical and mental health? From a practice perspective, I am seeing more people burning out from work stress. They are depressed and unable to lead normal lives. Human resource department managers and insurance companies among seem to be skeptical about the effects of shift work on health which only…