NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most Americans with major depression go untreated or under treated using a benchmark of American Psychiatric Association guidelines, according to a national study released this week. Mexican Americans and African Americans are the least likely to receive treatment, especially treatment consistent with the guidelines, the study found. Those racial and ethnic disparities persisted regardless of health ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain kinds of talk therapy and guided self-help are both more likely than behavioral weight loss treatment to keep people free from binge eating disorder, according to a new study. In prior research, these treatments for binge eating have had similar short-term results. Long-term data, however, have been lacking, according to the report in the Archives ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Out of control" binge eaters who get help from a therapist do better in the short-term than people who use self-help techniques, new research shows. But in the long-term, self-help and therapist-led or therapist-assisted approaches seem to have about the same effectiveness, Dr. Carol B. Peterson of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and her colleagues ...