Research suggests that religious belief can help protect against symptoms of depression, but a study at Rush University Medical Center goes one step further.

More than half of low-income urban mothers met the criteria for a diagnosis of depression at some point between two weeks and 14 months after giving birth.

Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of feeling anxious, may put people who are already above-average worriers at risk for depression.

Latest results from FREEDOM study show continued, significant relief of depressive symptoms, which have been implicated in higher rates of hospitalization and death among ESRD patients LAWRENCE, Mass., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc.

Objectives. This prospective study tested the integration of the diathesis-stress component of the hopelessness theory of depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) and Persons and Miranda's (1992) activation hypothesis (i.e.