Well Worth It: CBT for Depressed Teens

Teen´s quintessence

Here’s a nice alternative and effective intervention for teens exhibiting early signs of depression – cognitive behavioral therapy. There’s a lot to like in this study, and its results. Cognitive behavioral therapy is different from what most of think of as “therapy” – CBT is focused on coping strategies, and changing both your thinking [...]

Five Things To Do For Your Health – June

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Looking for your 5 Simple Things to Improve Your Health this month? Head over to SFGate for the Doc Gurley Five Things To Do For Your Health This Month – June. You’ll find a tidy, easy-to-accomplish list of simple steps that can make your launch into summer healthier and happier. While you’re there, sign [...]

Name Your Poison: Heart Attack or Puking Up Blood?

Aspirin Direkt

You have to give credit where credit is due – a recent analysis of studies looking at the benefits of aspirin therapy for people without a prior history of a heart attack managed to reduce the decision to a pretty simple bottom line: name your poison – a heart attack or puking up blood? [...]

Teen Death-Prevention

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Perhaps you too have noticed the news coverage about the 16-year-old sports star from a wealthy California community who died this weekend due to presumed alcohol overdose – he was found in a hallway of an unsupervised home where lots of kids were partying.

The unanimous news coverage ends with the plea for “parents [...]

Now That’s a Mother…

Check out the Doc Gurley article at SFGate – the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle – where she discusses the amazing Mother Wright. Mary Ann Wright was a woman who was “right” is so many ways – a true everyday hero of our times. In the article, you’ll find not only a [...]

Well Worth It: Heart Help Really Helps!

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Welcome to another Well Worth It – articles about proven, data-driven studies that you may not hear much about in the main-stream media (usually because of a lack of profit-driven PR). Be sure to forward the Well Worth It information along to anyone you think might benefit!

Recent news that we reviewed here at [...]

A Trifecta of Broken Hearts

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Sad recent news  on the topic of depression and hearts.

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1) The first big news is that depression is signficantly associated with an increased incidence of heart failure after a heart attack. The study showed, first, that depression after heart attacks is very common (10%), and that it is a marker, [...]

Swine Flu – Ten Tips for Me and You

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Now that America has declared a state of swine flu public health emergency, you may be asking yourself – what am I supposed to do? Here is a list of ten practical steps you can take to prepare and protect yourself and your family.

1) Know the symptoms – Here are some of the symptoms that [...]

Well Worth It: A Giggle

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Welcome to another Well Worth It – articles about proven, data-driven studies that you may not hear much about in

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the main-stream media (usually because of a lack of profit-driven PR). Be sure to forward the Well Worth It information along to anyone you think might benefit!

If [...]

12 Ways to Cope

February 2, 2007

Check out this great article, which is (sadly) misnamed as 12 Depression Busters, when, instead, this is really

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twelve ways to cope. Why the picky-seeming Doc Gurley distinction? Clinical depression is a serious issue – and not something that people generally “bust” through willful effort. The person who’s writing this article [...]

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Doc Gurley is a Board-certified Internist physician and the only Harvard Medical School graduate to have been awarded a Shoney’s Ten-Step Pin for documented excellence in waitressing. Find out more.

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