Posts tagged with 'hospitals'
Kidney donation: what are the risks?
19th October 2016
I recently wrote a blog post "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering". I commented that most blog posts on this website are primarily written for fellow health professionals & others interested in an evidence-based approach to stress, health & wellbeing. However this sequence of posts about kidney donation are …
Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering
14th October 2016
Note: I actually had the kidney operation in December 2016 but, when initiatlly writing this blog, the hospital asked me to change the dates so it was less likely that the recipient would be able to identify me 'by mistake'. Since I and the dear man who received the kidney …
Recent research: six studies on depression – bereavement, pregnancy, bipolar disorder, suicide, & stress in hospital staff
11th December 2008
Five of these six studies are from last month's American Journal of Psychiatry. Kendler et al discuss the many similarities and only occasional differences between bereavement-related and other life event-related depression - an issue explored further in Maj's editorial. Li et al show that depression in pregnancy (exacerbated further by …