A blood draw can already reveal cholesterol levels, blood sugar, and signs of infection. Before long, it might also flag ...

The treatment consists of a Bluetooth headset that patients can connect to an app on their smartphones. It could mark a ...

Depression treatments focus mostly on decreasing negative emotions. But a study finds that increasing positive ones might be ...

A woman walks into a clinic for a routine blood draw. Weeks later, a lab report flags something unexpected: the immune cells ...

Patients with chronic conditions who are failing on conventional therapies may be suffering from undiagnosed major depression ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those ...

Depression can be debilitating. Some depressed people lose interest in the things they love. Others can’t get out of bed. Many self harm or take their own lives. This month is Suicide Prevention Month ...

It’s hard to understand if you’ve never been there. I recently posted a question on my Facebook page asking people who’d suffered from depression to describe what it felt like so that those who’d ...

Depression is prevalent among patients with CKD including those on dialysis. How depressive symptoms may affect cardiac structure and function has been underexplored.

A new meta-analysis of 55 studies involving more than 3 million people has found that 31% of individuals with cannabis use ...

Psychiatry has a naming problem. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are assumed to be cousins but, in fact, are barely related. The “schizo” in schizophrenia ...