International Business News - patients http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with heart problems than the general population, according to the recommendations published in the journal Circulation. The authors said only about half of heart doctors say they treat depression in their patients--and not all those diagnosed with depression are treated. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142204-heart-patients-depression.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/heart-patients-should-be-screened-for-depression.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/heart-patients-should-be-screened-for-depression.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:39:45 EDT Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with heart problems than the general population, according to the recommendations published in the journal Circulation. The authors said only about half of heart doctors say they treat depression in their patients--and not all those diagnosed with depression are treated. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142180-heart-patients-depression.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/heart-patients-should-be-screened-for-depression.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/heart-patients-should-be-screened-for-depression.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:50:35 EDT When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85220-marooned-psych-patients.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/some-psych-patients-wait-days-in-hospital-ers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/some-psych-patients-wait-days-in-hospital-ers.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:09:02 EDT Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48584-myanmar.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/myanmar-health-system-strained-by-cyclone.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080518/myanmar-health-system-strained-by-cyclone.htm Sun, 18 May 2008 00:30:05 EDT Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48535-thailand-myanmar.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/myanmar-health-system-strained-by-cyclone.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/myanmar-health-system-strained-by-cyclone.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 22:41:18 EDT Genentech Inc., the developer and maker of pharmaceutical products, said Thursday it expects final results from a clinical trial of a cancer drug Avastin in patients with colon cancer to be done by 2009, a year earlier than it previously forecasted. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/genetech-avastin-colon-cancer-patients.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 22:16:10 EDT