Depression in the News --from The Mood Disorders Support Group of New York City

We maintain a list of news stories regarding mood disorders. These stories are either from major media articles (such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report and Scientific American), US Government reports or reports based on medical studies. More than merely links, we summarize each article to help you decide whether its worth reading. Most articles are available for free on the web and when this is true, we provide a direct link to the article. For those items that are not freely available, we provide instructions on how to obtain a copy of the article.

Stories from 1997 through 2006 are available (see list above). Each year is a separate web page. If you know of an article that might be included here, feel free to forward the URL (link) to us using the webmaster E-mail address at the bottom of this page.

Google has an advanced search page with an option for a "News Search". This lets you search news stories in the media for the last week. There is no dedicated mood disorder functionality, but keywords such as "depression" or "bipolar" can be used. As of April, 2002 this is still being tested.

MEDLINE provides news stories by topic. Their page for topics beginning with D has new stories on Depression, their B topics page has stories on Bipolar Disorder.

The Doctor's Guide web site has depression related medical news and alerts.

MSNBC has a section of their web site dedicated to mental health stories.

The Washington Post has an online Mental Health section.

The department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan provides Mental Health News and Information

Depressionet, a depression support organization in Australia, links to news stories from Australian newspapers and press releases.

WebMD has a section of their site devoted to news stories about depression.

HealthAnswers.com has a web page with depression news.

Intelihealth is a joint venture of Aetna U.S. Healthcare and Johns Hopkins University. They carry news stories from the AP and the New York Times about Mental Health, and specifically about depression. If these links do not work, from their home page select "News by Topic". (updated June 2002)

The web site about.com has a section devoted to depression which includes a section devoted to news stories about depression. old link new link

USA Today has an index of health stories, with a section devoted to mental health.

At the Healthscout web site go to the Directory section, chose Diseases and Conditions and then chose Depression.

The American Psychological Association has created PsycPORT to "provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology". News stories are drawn from about 50 different sources.

Mediconsult is a web site devoted to health information that carries news stories about depression.

Reuters Health has a section for consumer health news. Once there, you can limit the news stories by topic and they have a topic called "Depression News".

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