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The use of psychiatric medications has jumped alarmingly  over the last 10 years and no one can explain exactly why. In the US in 2010, 1 in 5 adults took a psychiatric medication. In women it was higher, 1 in 4. The most commonly used psychiatric drugs by women are antidepressants, and the women most [...]

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If we can predict who is less likely to continue our weight loss programs we can  probably take aversive action to improve their compliance and so improve patient success. Certain individuals have been found to be less likely to stick with a weight loss program in research trials and so would also be candidates to [...]

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Increased cardiac events in depressed patients appears to be due to their poor health behaviours and not to previously suggested and unrecognised biological processes. Depressed patients have a dramatically increased risk to congestive heart failure and coronary heart disease. Numerous research efforts have uncovered several physiological problems in depressed patients including elevated fibrosis markers – [...]

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