Depression and a family history of alcoholism may play a role in how much of a sweet tooth a child has, new research suggests.

Combined treatment with the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline) and the alcoholism drug naltrexone may prove an important advance in the treatment of alcoholic depressed patients.

People with asthma are more than twice as likely to have depression or anxiety as people who don’t have the chronic airway disease.

New cost-sharing policies may prevent some older adults diagnosed with depression from filling new antidepressant prescriptions.

Breast cancer patients who exercise and drink tea regularly may be less likely to suffer from the blues. Participants who exercised for two to three hours a week were less likely to be depressed than those who did not exercise.

Two seemingly unrelated problems might share a genetic component that may make some people more likely to suffer from both migraine and depression, Dutch researchers report.