News and Information on Depression

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide patients with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS as described in this video.

If you don't want to deal with using RSS, PeRSSonalized Depression, a free, simple, multi-lingual Webicina service that features the latest news of the most relevant social media resources focusing on medical conditions and specialties, is created for you.



This video shows how it works:



You can insert the term "depression" into the custom Pubmed feed box to receive the latest peer-reviewed publications focusing on depression automatically.

We collected the best sites focusing on depression-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

About.com - Depression

• Description: "Your best starting place for learning about symptoms and treatments for depression, as well as how to cope. Support forums, links, articles and more."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Depression Alliance

• Description: We work to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information and support services to those who are affected by it via our publications, supporter services and network of self-help groups for people affected by depression. A user-focussed organisation, we have offices in England and a sister charity in Scotland.
• Quality: The organizer of the Depression Awareness Week™.

Depression Forums

• Description: We would like to invite you to share your story about your Depression, as breaking the silence will help us to break open the stigma surrounding mental health that keeps people from getting the care that continues misunderstandings about those affected by mental health disorders.
• Quality: HONcode accredited.

Everyday Health - Depression

• Description: "Everyday Health is for consumers who need to manage their conditions daily, get answers to their most important health-related questions, or find thorough information about how to get and stay well."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Health24 - Depression

• Description: "Health24 content is educational, relevant, and medically reviewed. The aim of the editorial is to enable readers to make informed decisions about their health. The site covers a wide range of topics, such as in-depth information on common medical conditions, diet, fitness, pregnancy, parenting, men's and women's health. It is continually being updated by a team of medical specialists and journalists."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealthCentral - Depression

• Description: "Learn about the types of depression and their signs, depression in teens, children, and elderly, treating depression, and depression drugs. Get depression help from blogs and depression support forums."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Healthline Depression Channel

• Description: Depression is more than just occasionally having the blues. Depression is a mood disorder. You feel sad and have no joy in life. You may feel that you have nothing to live for. There are many types of depression, from simple depressed mood to Major Depression - a life-threatening illness.
• Quality: The articles are written by a medical board.

Mayo Clinic - Depression (major depression)

• Description: "Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medical News Today - Depression News

• Description: The latest Depression News articles published daily. Includes news on symptoms, treatments and current research towards understanding and combating depression.
• Quality: One of the most compherensive medical news sites.

MedicineNet.com - Depression

• Description: "MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site. Since 1996, MedicineNet.com has had a highly accomplished, uniquely experienced team of qualified Webster's New World Medical Dictionary - authored by MedicineNetexecutives in the fields of medicine, healthcare, Internet technology, and business to bring you the most comprehensive, sought after healthcare information anywhere."
• Quality: The authors are medical professionals.

MedLine Plus - Depression

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Netdoctor - Depression

• Description: "We want to break down the "medical language barrier" between the doctor and the patient. Critical medical information must be presented in a clear and understandable language so that the patient fully understands his or her choices and decisions. Ultimately, it is the patient who must make the critical health choices."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

NHS Choices - Depression

• Description: Dominic Arkwright reports on what distinguishes depression from unhappiness and how sufferers deal with the symptoms and stigma of depression.
• Quality: NHS Choices is committed to the highest editorial and ethical standards in the provision of all its content and related services. Details here.

Patient UK - Depression

• Description: The aim of this website is to provide non-medical people in the UK with good quality information about health and disease. The authors do this by writing evidence based information leaflets on a wide range of medical and health topics. They also review health and illness related websites and link to many of these from the web directory included on this website. UK sites are the primary links in the web directory as they feel that residents in the UK prefer to obtain health information from UK sources. They also suggest some links to selected overseas sites.
• Quality: The authors are medical professionals, you can download the material or listen to it online.

Science Daily - Depression News

• Description: News, articles, videos, images and books about depression.
• Quality: It has a clearly described editorial stuff

The Medical News - Depression News and Research

• Description: Latest Medical News and Research from Around the World.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

WebMD® - Depression

• Description: Everyone has felt depressed. Yet the sadness and other symptoms of depression that are intense and last for long periods of time, can signal clinical depression or major depression, a serious medical illness that needs professional care.
• Quality: HONcode accredited.

Social bookmarking lets you store, organize and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

Here are a few social bookmarking sites and the collection of links featuring your field of interest.

Del.icio.us

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

• All websites tagged with depression


• Most recent additions


• Most popular depression websites

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you.

Diigo

Diigo: If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.



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