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Health International Technology 

Hi, Robot: Japan’s Android Pets Ease Virus Isolation

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
coronavirus, depression, Japan, robotics, Toys

Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.

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Health International 

As the Virus Resurges, Mental Health Woes Batter France

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
coronavirus, depression, France, mental health, surveys

Lockdowns that France has used to fight the coronavirus have come at considerable cost to mental health. Surveying points to a surge of depression most acute among people without work, in financial hardship and young adults.

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Health National 

Poll: Pandemic Takes Toll on Mental Health of Young Adults

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
coronavirus, depression, mental health

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a harsh toll on the mental health of young Americans, according to a new poll that finds adults under 35 especially likely to report negative feelings or experience physical or emotional symptoms associated with stress and anxiety.

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Health International 

UK Rates of Depression Double Among Adults During Lockdown

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
coronavirus, depression, Research, United Kingdom

Rates of depression appear to have almost doubled in Britain since the country was put into lockdown in late March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the country’s official statistics agency.

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Entertainment Health Personal Injury 

Reality TV

January 23, 2020January 24, 2020 BRIEF
depression, mental health, negligence, obesity, reality TV, suicide, Wrongful Death

Parents of the late James Bonner Jr. sued Megalomedia and Mansfield Films in Harris County Court, claiming their exploitation and neglect led him to commit suicide while filming their reality show, “My 600-lb. Life.”

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Appeals Civil Rights Criminal 

State Bar to Insanity Defense Faces Supreme Court Review

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 BRITAIN EAKIN
depression, insanity, Kansas, mental health, murder, U.S. Supreme Court

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.

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Health National 

More Teens Report Feelings of Fear and Despair

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, depression, drugs, sex, students, suicide, teens

While 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.

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Health Science 

Fertility Study Links Male Depression & Trouble Conceiving

May 17, 2018 EMILEE LARKIN
depression, fertility, gender, National Institutes of Health, pregnancy

Fertility researchers published a study Thursday that found a correlation between lower pregnancy chances and depression in the male partner.

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Health International Science 

Study: Exercise Can Limit Future Chance of Depression

April 24, 2018April 27, 2018 SEAN DUFFY
depression, fitness, mental health, Research

Physical activity can reduce a person’s chances of developing depression, according to a new study.

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Employment Health Media Regional 

‘Talk Stoop’ Boot

April 3, 2018 BRIEF
depression, Journalism, NBC, NYC

Nearly 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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Health Science 

Study Links Exercise to Preventing Depression

October 3, 2017October 4, 2017 SEAN DUFFY
depression, fitness, Research

Exercising for just one hour a week – regardless of age, gender or intensity of the workout – can prevent future depression, a new study reveals.

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Op-Ed 

Dispatches From the Road: Raven

June 8, 2017August 8, 2017 CHRIS MARSHALL
Arizona, birds, CMarshall, depression, forests, National Monuments, suicide

In 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.

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Health Science 

Childhood Obesity Linked to Lifetime Depression

May 19, 2017 SEAN DUFFY
depression, obesity

New research suggests that being overweight from a young age could more than triple a person’s lifetime risk of major depression.

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Business Health 

Abilify Cases Transferred to Florida Federal Court

January 27, 2017June 28, 2018 ALEX PICKETT
depression, Florida, gambling, pharmaceuticals

Thousands 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.

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Health National 

Depression, Suicidal Thoughts Common Among US Pilots

December 15, 2016June 28, 2018 SEAN DUFFY
airlines, Aviation, depression, suicide

Researchers 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.

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Business 

Abilify Drugmaker Reaches $19.5M Settlement With States

December 8, 2016June 28, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
Bristol-Myers Squibb, depression, FDA, pharmaceuticals, Secondary, Settlement

Bristol-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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National Science 

Studies Find Depression Common in Medical School

December 7, 2016December 8, 2016 SEAN DUFFY
depression, doctors, psec, suicide

More than a quarter of medical students are depressed, many of whom reported thoughts of suicide during medical school.

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Personal Injury 

Compulsive Gambling

November 15, 2016June 28, 2018 admin
depression, gambling, pharmaceuticals

An 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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