A man who was barred from pleading insanity after killing his two daughters, his wife and her grandmother persuaded the Supreme Court on Monday to hear his Eighth Amendment challenge.
Read moreWhile American high school students are less sexually active and are doing fewer illicit drugs, a growing number are feeling hopeless and reporting suicidal thoughts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read moreFertility researchers published a study Thursday that found a correlation between lower pregnancy chances and depression in the male partner.
Read morePhysical activity can reduce a person’s chances of developing depression, according to a new study.
Read moreNearly a decade after launching “Talk Stoop” from her Brooklyn brownstone, Cat Greenleaf claims in court that NBC fired her after she suffered a relapse of clinical depression.
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Exercising for just one hour a week – regardless of age, gender or intensity of the workout – can prevent future depression, a new study reveals.
Read moreIn his latest dispatch from Arizona, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief finds inspiration – and peace – in the ravens of Sunset Crater National Monument and Petrified Forest National Park.
Read moreNew research suggests that being overweight from a young age could more than triple a person’s lifetime risk of major depression.
Read moreThousands of people who blame the makers of Abilify for upending their lives due to the drug’s compulsive gambling side effects will have their cases heard by the federal court in Pensacola, Florida.
Read moreResearchers have just given nervous flyers another reason to be worried about their upcoming flights: Hundreds of pilots actively flying commercial planes may be clinically depressed or have thoughts of suicide.
Read moreBristol-Myers Squibb reached a $19.5 million settlement Thursday on its off-label promotion of Abilify, an anti-psychotic that was originally designed to treat schizophrenia.
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More than a quarter of medical students are depressed, many of whom reported thoughts of suicide during medical school.
Read moreAn Ohio man claims in a federal lawsuit that Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Otsuka’s Abilify anti-depressant drug gave him a compulsive gambling habit.
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