Untreatable Depression
Researchers have found that people who have mild depression whose condition is left untreated tend to experience a worsening of their symptoms over time, leading many of them to be diagnosed with major depression.
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Depression significantly impairs health but is unrecognized and...
“Treatment for depression should at least be on a par with that for other chronic diseases.” An article in this week’s edition of... Read more »
What Happens When Anxiety Goes Untreated
Treatment is available for anxiety disorders. This may include therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and medication. Treatment is effective... Read more »
What Other Medical Problems Can Occur When Asthma is Untreated?
It's said a gallant asthmatics can live a normal, active life. Yet what happens to the goofus asthmatic who doesn't treat his... Read more »
Sickle Cell Disease: Severe Pain Often Goes Untreated
Recently, we have discussed articles in the scientific literature that have raised concerns that prescription pain medications are at times... Read more »
Anxiety: Pervasive, and Often Untreated
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Most Adults with Depression Untreated, Study Finds
Most U.S. adults who have depression do not get the minimum standard-of-practice treatment, a new study has found, and this problem is especially... Read more »
Depression often untreated in working mothers: study
More than half of working mothers who suffer from depression do not receive adequate treatment for the condition, a new study has found. Researchers... Read more »
Depression significantly impairs health but is unrecognized an...
“Treatment for depression should at least be on a par with that for other chronic diseases.” 2 An article in this week’s edition of The... Read more »
Most Overactive Bladder Patients Go Untreated
Only about one-fourth of patients with overactive bladder (OAB) receive medical treatment, a new study has found. The one-year study found that 17... Read more »
Kids' chronic pain often goes untreated
Studies suggest that up to one-quarter of children suffer from chronic pain and that six to eight percent of children endure pain that is frequent,... Read more »
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