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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether a man is recovering from cancer or helping his spouse to deal with cancer, how his wife is coping emotionally will play a key role in his physical health, a new American Cancer Society (ACS)-funded study shows.
"Regardless of your status as a caregiver or a cancer patient, gender matters," the study's first author, Dr. Youngmee Kim of the ACS's Behavioral Research Center in Atlanta, told Reuters Health.
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We often hear that suicide rates are highest during the holidays. I
even heard a character in a Christmas TV movie warn about the risk
during the last holiday season. Seems to make sense, in a way. After
all, the holiday season even has its own syndrome - the holiday blues.
Many people are stressed out, and for anyone who's alone and depressed,
the contrast between the ideal of the holidays and reality can be hard
to take.
Here's the problem - the prevailing wisdom is wrong.
In fact, we're not heading away from the most dangerous time of the
year for suicide, we're heading towards it. Suicide rates are
actually at their highest during late spring and early summer, and at
their lowest around the holidays. There does appear to be a jump on New
Year's Eve and New Year's Day, which is thought to be due to the
holiday season ending and harsh reality settling in.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration says it's investigating a possible link between the allergy drug Singulair and suicide.
FDA said it is reviewing reports of mood changes, suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who have taken the drug. Singulair was drug maker Merck's best-selling product last year.
In the past year Merck has updated the drug's labeling four times to include information on tremors, anxiousness, depression and suicidal behavior reported in some patients.
Singulair had sales of more than $4 billion last year.
Merck shares had fallen by 10 cents in late morning trading.
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New research suggests that a child's problems forming relationships and being accepted by friends are more likely to contribute to anxiety and depression than vice versa, particularly during the transition from adolescence into young adulthood.
The study, conducted by researchers at the universities of Vermont and Minnesota, found that young people who initially had more "internalizing" problems such as anxiety and depression were more likely to have those problems in adolescence and young adulthood. Those who were socially competent at the start, though, were socially competent as they grew up.
In addition, the study -- published in the March/April issue of Child Development -- found evidence of spillover effects, where social problems contributed to increasing internalizing symptoms over time.
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Several Supreme Court justices suggested Wednesday that defendants with a history of mental illness can be judged competent to stand trial or plead guilty, yet forfeit their constitutional right to represent themselves.
The court heard arguments in a case from Indiana in which a judge prevented a defendant from acting as his own lawyer at trial out of concern that the proceedings would become a farce.
Justice Stephen Breyer said that allowing judges' discretion in those cases could increase public confidence in the criminal justice system and reduce the number of "very disturbed people ending up in prison because they are disturbed, not because they're guilty."
Ahmad Edwards was convicted of attempted murder and other charges in 2005 for a shooting six years earlier at an Indianapolis department store.
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