New relationship important for the mental health of widowers

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

Men who have lost their partner to cancer and who are still single four to five years after their loss run a far greater risk of developing mental illness than those who have managed to find a new partner, reveals a unique study of 691 Swedish widowers carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy.

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