Sleep medication makes for an annual $2 billion market with the worldwide prescriptions forecasted to be around $6 billion by the end of 2017. The recent research findings have corroborated the fact that the anti-anxiety medications are slowly poisoning its regular users. The research report issued by the British Medical Journal is based on the prescription records of around 34,750 patients under primary care physicians, who were prescribed benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax. A control set of about 69,420 people was used to assess the prescription drug related deaths in an average eight year follow up. Continue reading “Medicines for Sleep and Anxiety Issues Under Scanner”
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Parents are very concerned about the increased incidence of teen depression. In this context, there is no other option available for them except to acquire as much knowledge about this problem as possible. Though the Internet has a lot of information about this problem, parents should discuss with their doctor also to get some valuable advice. If you are a parent and if your child has been affected, you should ask the following questions to your doctor so that you can have a good amount of information about teen depression. Continue reading “Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Teen Depression”
A new study has revealed that mental health problems like stress can trigger teen depression. Conversely, depression may raise the levels of stress hormones in boys, but in the case of girls, the stress hormones may cause obesity. This means that if depression is treated in time, the stress hormones can get reduced. So, the problem of obesity can be prevented also. Continue reading “Stress and Teen Depression”