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AskMen.com Harold Russell |
Depression & Fatigue A recent study of adults showed fatigue and lethargy to be the most common and debilitating symptoms of depression. This finding could change the way that physicians treat this illness. |
Managed Care August 2006 Cross & Sipkoff |
Although Employers Need Depression Programs, They May Not Know It Yet Research says the hidden cost of untreated depression far outweighs the cost of treatment. Plans need to get this information to purchasers. |
American Family Physician October 15, 2006 |
Depression: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is depression?... What causes depression?... Symptoms of Depression... How is depression diagnosed?... etc. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2002 Sharp & Lipsky |
Screening for Depression Across the Lifespan: A Review of Measures for Use in Primary Care Settings Depression is a common psychiatric disorder in children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Primary care physicians, not mental health professionals, treat the majority of patients with symptoms of depression. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2002 |
Depression What is depression?... What causes depression?... How is depression diagnosed?... How is depression treated?... What about suicide?... |
Managed Care February 2002 Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace |
Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment... |
AskMen.com January 6, 2001 Joshua Levine |
Dealing With Depression Clinical depression is an illness characterized by a cluster of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are strikingly different from a person's normal range of feeling and functioning... |
American Family Physician September 15, 2002 |
Depression in Women Is depression common in women?... What are the symptoms?... What causes depression?... Symptoms of Depresssion... How is depression treated?... Are antidepressants safe for any woman with depression?... etc. |
American Family Physician January 1, 2007 Shashi & Subhash Bhatia |
Childhood and Adolescent Depression Safe and effective treatment of major depression in this age group requires accurate diagnosis, suicide risk assessment, and use of evidence-based therapies. |
Managed Care May 2004 MargaretAnn Cross |
Depression Programs Might Provide an Edge There may be some costs up front, but there is also an opportunity for health plans to profit as employers' concern about this issue grows. |
Nurse Practitioner March 2012 Vanya Hamrin et al. |
Evaluation and Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Depression The primary care setting is an appropriate venue for screening and identifying pediatric depression. Nurse practitioners can provide initial management or referral to psychiatric mental health professionals for evidence-based treatments. |
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe |
Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers. |
ifeminists May 5, 2004 Tony Zizza |
Depression Screenings Don't Belong In Our Schools A recent article in the Denver Post reports Denver Health's School-Based Health Centers are screening every student - for depression - who steps inside any one of the 11 school-based "clinics." |
American Journal of Nursing February 2012 |
Original Research: Nurses' Presenteeism and Its Effects on Self-Reported Quality of Care and Costs This study sought to investigate the extent to which musculoskeletal pain or depression (or both) in RNs affects their work productivity and self-reported quality of care and considered the associated costs. |
AskMen.com Julian Marcus |
Are You Bipolar? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is one of the least understood and potentially most destructive mental health disorders. |
Nurse Practitioner May 2012 Diana L. Wadlund |
Meeting the challenge of IBS IBS is the best studied, most common functional GI disorder, and is often characterized by debilitating symptoms without any pathologic findings. The predominant symptoms of IBS are abdominal pain and an alteration in bowel habits with an absence of organic pathology. |
Nursing October 2009 Yvonne D'Arcy |
Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. |
Managed Care December 2005 Lola Butcher |
Kansas City Focuses on Depression Health plans, researchers, employers, and workers make common cause to identify and treat depression. |
Nurse Practitioner September 2010 Moloney & Cranwell-Bruce |
Pharmacological Management of Migraine Headaches Migraine is one of the top 20 causes of disability worldwide, occurring in 17.6% of women and 5.7% of men |
Nurse Practitioner October 2011 Krauter & Cook |
Pharmacogenetics and the pharmacological management of depression One CYP450 enzyme, CYP2D6, is responsible for the metabolism of 30% of all drugs including many antidepressants. Phenotypes of metabolizer status affect antidepressant treatment outcomes and adverse drug reactions. |
American Family Physician May 15, 2004 Birrer & Vemuri |
Depression in Later Life: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge Depression in elderly persons is widespread, often undiagnosed, and usually untreated. Because there is no reliable diagnostic test, a careful clinical evaluation is essential. |
Nursing April 2008 Kathryn Murphy |
Shedding the burden of depression & anxiety Learn about types of depression and available treatments. |
Nursing March 2012 Susan Simmons |
Recognizing and preventing Acute stroke in women In women, stroke is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, and the major cause of disability. |
Nurse Practitioner May 2009 Yvonne D'Arcy |
Is Low Back Pain Getting on Your Nerves? The pain and disability of low back pain are the most common reasons patients seek healthcare. Here are tools for diagnosis and treatment options. |
AskMen.com May 27, 2001 Joshua Levine |
Are You A Hypochondriac? The facts are that only 16% of patients that see their General Practitioners for common ailments actually have physiological causes for their sicknesses... |
Reason December 2007 Will Wilkinson |
The Great Depression Is an epidemic of depressive disorder really sweeping America? Book review: The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder, by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. |
Nursing July 2011 Susan Simmons |
Recognizing and Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis Here's what rheumatoid arthritis is, how it's diagnosed and treated, and what you can do to help patients manage the disease. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jennifer Ringler |
The Adherence Fight: A TKO? Why does the match against medicines compliance always seem to end in an easy knockout? |
American Family Physician March 1, 2002 Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil |
Identifying and Managing Preparatory Grief and Depression at the End of Life Preparatory grief is experienced by virtually all patients who are dying and can be facilitated with psychosocial support and counseling... |
Nurse Practitioner August 2010 Virginia Sun |
Update on Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Pancreatic cancer is the 10th leading type of all new cancer cases and the fourth leading type of cancer death that affects both men and women. |
ifeminists October 4, 2006 Tony Zizza |
Time To Boycott National Depression Screening Day In the U.S., whenever National Depression Screening Day rears its ugly head in the mainstream media every first week in October, we have the opportunity to review some serious doublethink that does not change much with each passing year. |
American Family Physician January 1, 2007 |
Depression in Children and Teens How to recognize depression in your children and resources available for more information. |
ifeminists December 28, 2005 Tony Zizza |
If Depression Hurts, Eli Lilly Is Killing Us Eli Lilly's latest marketing campaign is a form of propaganda that speaks to how low Big Pharma will go to keep Americans in chemical handcuffs. |
Health May 2007 Sharon Boone |
Is That Stomach Pain All in Your Head? Cut stress and that irritable bowel may disappear. |
Nursing Management March 2012 Yvonne D'Arcy |
Pain and obesity It can be a challenge to provide effective pain management for obese patients; however, a multimodal pain management regimen that combines medications and complementary techniques can help increase pain relief. |
Nurse Practitioner December 2011 |
Managing pain in obese patients Obesity-related pain conditions can limit the patient's efforts at increasing activity and limit quality of life. This article will offer information on these conditions and treatment options. |
Nurse Practitioner August 2011 Davis et al. |
Supportive approaches for Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer disease accounts for almost 80% of all dementia diagnoses. Currently, more than 5 million Americans suffer from this debilitating illness, with the highest prevalence in the oldest age groups. |
American Family Physician January 1, 2006 Rupke, Blecke & Renfrow |
Cognitive Therapy for Depression Family physicians usually are the first to diagnose and treat patients with depression. They should inform patients that psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are valid options, and that cognitive therapy is the most studied psychotherapy. |
American Family Physician July 15, 2004 Robertson & Montagnini |
Geriatric Failure to Thrive Some elderly patients, including those who do not have acute illness or severe chronic disease, eventually undergo a process of functional decline, progressive apathy, and a loss of willingness to eat and drink that culminates in death. |
Managed Care October 2003 Martin Sipkoff |
Pain Management: Health Plans Need to Take Control Insurers have not focused much on chronic pain. They should. It presents a humanitarian and business opportunity. |
American Journal of Nursing December 2010 Baldridge & Andrasek |
Pain Assessment in People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Nurses in all settings need to be knowledgeable about alternate pain assessment methods. |
Nursing April 2012 Elliott et al. |
Managing alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients A focused nursing assessment is critical in identifying the potential for alcohol withdrawal symptoms in all hospitalized patients. This article discusses how to assess patients at risk and how to use these assessment findings as a basis for nursing interventions. |
American Family Physician August 15, 2001 Thomas P. Guck |
Assessment and Treatment of Depression Following Myocardial Infarction Depression is an independent risk factor in the development of and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy persons... |
American Family Physician November 15, 2000 Son & Kirchner |
Depression in Children and Adolescents Depression among children and adolescents is common but frequently unrecognized. It affects 2 percent of prepubertal children and 5 to 8 percent of adolescents... |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin |
Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty. |
Managed Care June 2007 Lisa A. Higgins |
Sobering Stats Invite Insurers To Fight Alcoholism Effectively Health plans may not be able to control problem drinking by their members. They can, however, affect the way their contracted providers approach the problem. And that may be what makes the difference. |
Nurse Practitioner April 2012 Firestone et al. |
Optimizing fibromyalgia management This article summarizes current information regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic standards, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments necessary to successfully manage FM. |
Nursing May 2010 Sharon M. Valente |
Assessing patients for suicide risk This article will help you update your knowledge of suicide risk factors and prevention strategies, and provide guidelines for effective intervention. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2002 |
Depression in Children and Teens What should I do if I think my child is depressed?... What are some of the signs of depression in children and teens?... Why do young people get depressed?... What can be done to help children and teens who are depressed? |
Managed Care June 2003 Frank Diamond |
How To Manage the Worried Well They have symptoms, but that doesn't mean primary care physicians can pinpoint a physical problem. Yet they do suffer, and are a cost center for insurers and employers. |