Psychotic Symptoms Relieved With Estrogen Treatment The estrogen estradiol, in combination with antipsychotic medications, appears to improve treatment for women with schizophrenia, according to an article releasedon August 4, 2008 in Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previously, mental illness has been studied in conjunction with many different hormones, especially estrogen in women. However, the use of estrogen as a therapy for these diseases has only gained focus recently.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDepression Found To Hasten Decline In Cancer Patients Depression causes patients with advanced cancer to die sooner than they should, say scientists at the University of Liverpool. In a six-month study patients who were found to be depressed had a 7% increased chance of dying and this percentage increased depending on the severity of the depression. Depression is common in patients with advanced cancer and in a significant number of patients it is persistent.
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