* Where there is depression, there ...

* Where there is depression, there also may be chronic pain. As published in Internal Medicine recents reports on the findings of a measure and estimate presented at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting indicate that sum of two units thirds of patients with major depression also have chronic pain. In the thought of 5,808 primary care patients, 76 percent of patients were diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Of those patients, 26 percent reported chronic, nondisabling pain that lasted at least six month and 41 percent reported chronic, disabling pain. The findings indicate that remission of major depression in these clusters may be more difficult to achieve because antidepressant therapy typically does not address chronic pain.

* Mortality from prostate cancer is decreasing. According to American Cancer Society statistics published in USA Today, mortality rates for prostate cancer have dropp by dint of about 33 percent in North America and by way of 20 percent in Europe since 1990 Reported factors in the improved survival include earlier detection and better surgical and radiologic treatments. the same researcher from Oxford University noted that accumulated evidence from several studies indicates that immediate hormone therapy is a vastly underrated factor in the improved survival.

* recently made known mothers may need to be reminded to take care of themselves. As reported in Family Practice of the present days survey findings show that women repeatedly neglect their health for a year after a recently made known baby arrives. The surveys of 259 low-income women complet immediately after delivery and single year later, included questions onward 42 health-related items (diet, exercise, alcohol use, sleep/rest etc) After a year, behaviors in 11 of the areas had worsened significantly. Change was in the greatest degree significant in behaviors related to eating patterns and nutrition, smoking, and alcohol use.

* in what way U.S. medical students will live is affecting what they make choice of to do. According to a close attention published in JAMA, "controllable lifestyle" accounted for 37 percent of the variability in specialty precedence among medical students from 1996 to 2002 The variability in specialty priority increased to 55 percent after the researchers controll for work hours, income, and years of training. In this investigation 16 specialties were classified as having a controllable or uncontrollable lifestyle. Factors that determined whether lifestyle was controllable were the number of practice hours by week, the number of call nights, and the time for pursuit of avocational activities. The researchers noted that through time the desire for a controllable lifestyle might alter the distribution of physicians through specialty. The proportion of positions in family medicine filled by the agency of U.S. medical school graduates decreased from 26 percent between 1996 and 2002

* Health losse from smoking continue to increase, especially in developing countries. A consideration published in The Lancet indicates that these losse will become equable more substantial unless effective interventions and policies are implemented to attenuate smoking in men and impede increases among women. Using lung cancer mortality as an indirect marker for accumulated hazards of smoking, the contemplation estimated that 4.83 million premature deaths were attributable to smoking in 2000 (241 million in developing countries and 243 million in industrialized countries), with 384 million of the deaths occurring in men Cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer were the leading causes of smoking-related death.

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