My take away is that it means that more research is needed to identify reliable molecular markers of cancer. It's a real dilemma for docs. Right now we're just not there and so screening may be contributing to rising health care and insurance cost...
Well, the flip side of this is that depression can make it very hard to do house cleaning since it saps motivation. Helping a depressed person out by not judging and maybe (if you can afford it) treating them to a maid service day could go a ways ...
Hi Slinkygirl,
You're right-there are so many factors that all combine that can make people vulnerable to depression. Gene variations are a very poorly understood component of the big picture and multiple genes interact to make your brain "behave...
Hi Amanda: You've raised some interesting ideas about the importance of relaxation, which might be put another way when you consider children. The American Academy of Pediatrics has emphacized the importance of unstructured play time for kids, pre...
I also think it's a tremendous challenge to consider the causes and treatments of childhood depression, which is perhaps under diagnosed because it's dismissed as part of a "behavioral issue" and/or children may have difficulty articulating how th...
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