New therapies offer bright hope against the darkness of depression
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Certain medications and brain stimulators show promising results among some patients who do not respond to current common therapies.The numbers are staggering: Almost 7% of the U.S. adult population — about 17.6 million people — is diagnosed with depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that depression costs 200 million lost workdays each year at a cost to employers of $17 billion to $44 billion.