More than twenty thousand armed service veterans are serving sentences for criminal offences reports The Sun. The statistics come from a nationwide survey of probation officers who say many of the former military personnel were suffering from stress and depression from their service. Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of probation officers union Napo expressed how read more »

Many women who have a termination don’t realise they run risks of subsequently giving birth to premature and low weight babies. With a 35% increased risk of a low birth weight baby and a 36% raised risk of a pre-term baby in later pregnancies for those who aborted in their first or second trimester, surely read more »

The first official survey of NHS mental health has revealed a seriously high level of dissatisfaction with services, reports The Guardian. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the body responsible for regulating health and social care recently undertook a survey of 7,500 people recently discharged from 64 NHS trusts across the country. The questionnaire was given read more »

A recent report on the BBC News website looks into how declining financial skills could be an early warning sign of dementia. US research compiled by the University of Alabama in Birmingham studied 87 people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 25 of whom developed Alzheimer-type dementia during the study period and 62 who did not. read more »

The Big Lottery Fund’s Young People’s Fund has awarded Terrence Higgins Trust £432,000 to offer sexual health counselling to those between 10 and 18 years old in London. Support will be offered through a variety of mediums that young people feel comfortable with. They can receive counselling online, over the phone, via text or of read more »

It has been found that women who participate in adventure therapy often walk away with higher levels of self-confidence and motivation. This research was conducted by Dr Kaye Richards and was presented at the 5th International Adventure Therapy Conference. It examined practical ways of working therapeutically outdoors with women who suffer from eating disorders. The read more »

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC Psych) is calling for urgent action to address the dangers of pro-eating disorder websites, and wants the government’s Child Internet Safety Council (UKCCIS) to mark these websites as harmful. The RC Psych has called on UKCCIS to expand its definition of harmful web content to include pro-ana (anorexia) and read more »

The Edinburgh- based Royal College of Nursing have spoken out about the strain the health services face due to the rise of dementia patients and state the problem needs to be urgently addressed. The nurses union said with a predicted 75 per cent increase in the number of people with the illness in the next read more »

To try and combat the ever increasing levels of pressure students face, higher educational authorities are introducing new schemes in order to prevent their students from becoming victims of depression and stress. “Depression is a huge problem in the college student population” says John Greden M.D executive director of U-M Depression Centre. College students are read more »

A recent research report has found that depression in cancer patients can affect their chances of survival, reports BBC News. The cancer Journal recently included a review of 26 separate studies including 9,417 patients. The study found that that death rates were up to 25% higher in patients showing symptoms of depression and up to read more »