Do Antidepressant Drugs Increase Risk of Obesity? (Psych Central)

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1. What Is The Risk Of Obesity While Taking Antidepressant Drugs? (Medical News Today)
   Cross-sectional studies have reported an association between major depressive episode (MDE) and obesity. The objective of this longitudinal analysis was to determine whether MDE increase the risk of becoming obese over a 10-year period. Data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) were used, a longitudinal study of a representative cohort of household residents in Canada.
2. Does depression increase heart disease risk in women?
   March 09, 2009 WASHINGTON - Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman's heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people's outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place.
3. Screen Adolescents for Clinical Depression (Psych Central)
   The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends screening adolescents for clinical depression only when appropriate systems are in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, treatment and followup care. This applies to all adolescents 12 to 18 years of age. In a separate recommendation, the Task Force found insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits [...]
4. Multiple births increase risk of postpartum depression (CNN)
   Twins? Triplets? Octuplets? Sounds like a lot of stress to handle more than one baby at once.
5. Crude Behavior at Work Is Counterproductive (Psych Central)
   Be careful of that raunchy joke that gets all the laughs. As funny as folks at work may find it, it’s probably hurting morale. That’s one conclusion of a new paper from the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study’s authors looked at the effect of sexual behavior in the workplace such as sexual jokes, innuendo, discussions of [...]