Health today · Mental health
refines
More types of stressful life event in 39.7 million Finnish clinical notes were associated with anxiety, depression and frailty.
Preprint · not peer-reviewed
9 Nov 2026
Data, models and systems · Value in health
new
Prompt Mental Health Care cost €23,809 per QALY over 1 year and €6,376 over 3 years in a 738-person trial.
Peer-reviewed
7 Nov 2026
Behavioural science · Adherence and persistence
confirms
Of 76,200 new antidepressant users with mood or anxiety disorders, 30.2% filled only once and 75.4% stopped within a year.
Peer-reviewed
2 Nov 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
In 500 pregnant women with recurrent depression, online mindfulness training cut relapse to 6 months postpartum from 44% to 33%.
Peer-reviewed
2 Nov 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
In 10,059 New Zealanders with borderline personality disorder, all-cause mortality was 5.8 times the general population rate.
Peer-reviewed
31 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
In one NHS psychiatry service, severe enduring illness used most beds, crisis stays were brief, but adjusted mortality was similar.
Peer-reviewed
31 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Young people using child mental health services in Wales fell further behind peers in basic GCSE passes over time.
Peer-reviewed
31 Oct 2026
Health today · Obesity, diabetes and GLP-1
refines
GLP-1 RA users had more depression (HR 1.11) but fewer substance use disorders, dementia and suicidal or self-harm events.
Peer-reviewed
31 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
The regional age-standardised suicide mortality rate rose by 1·05% a year on average between 2015 and 2021, and only 10 of 33 countries fell fast enough to meet a one-third cut by 2030.
Peer-reviewed
26 Oct 2026
Health today · Obesity, diabetes and GLP-1
refines
In eight trials of antipsychotic-treated adults, GLP-1 receptor agonists lowered weight by 6.54 kg but raised nausea, vomiting and constipation.
Peer-reviewed
25 Oct 2026
Health today · Cancer
refines
Cancer patients with no prior depression who were later diagnosed with it had a suicide hazard 4.76 times that of those without.
Peer-reviewed
19 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
contradicts
The life expectancy gap at age 18 narrowed in both sexes over 14 years, but not in schizophrenia.
Peer-reviewed
16 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
In a Norwegian registry cohort of 2,486,836 adults followed from 2008 to 2023, excess life-years lost from age 30 in men ranged from 1.50 for depression with non-inpatient care and university education to 19.86 for schizophrenia with inpatient care and less than high school education.
Preprint · not peer-reviewed
10 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Among 9,534 Danish patients with anorexia nervosa, one in seven became steadily more ill, with more psychiatric and physical illness in the five years after diagnosis.
Preprint · not peer-reviewed
6 Oct 2026
Tomorrow's world · Medicine at a distance
new
Among 100 patients aged 70 and over, 72% of hospital inpatients screened positive for depressive symptoms as compared to 30% of those cared for on a virtual ward.
Peer-reviewed
6 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Among 100,335 Danish hip fracture patients aged 65 and over, infection within 30 days reached 43.0% in those with dementia, as compared to 18.4% in matched comparators with dementia.
Peer-reviewed
5 Oct 2026
Health today · Mental health
refines
Among 1858 Dutch adults followed for 15 years, lifetime major depression was associated with higher cardiometabolic disease incidence (HR 1.65), with no one symptom pattern carrying more risk than another.
Peer-reviewed
4 Oct 2026
Data, models and systems · Value in health
new
A transmission model for KwaZulu-Natal found depression screening with behavioural treatment most cost-effective among female sex workers, at $350 per HIV infection averted and $490 per QALY gained.
Peer-reviewed
3 Oct 2026
Behavioural science · Alcohol and drug use
new
In a national US survey, 8.9% of adults aged 65 and over had used cannabis in the past year, and 11.4% of those met criteria for cannabis use disorder.
Peer-reviewed
30 Sep 2026
Behavioural science · Social connection
refines
In a 29-country European survey of 48,377 respondents, loneliness was the strongest social predictor of psychological distress, and the other social measures together added 0.006 to the AUC.
Peer-reviewed
30 Sep 2026
Health today · Heart and stroke
new
A review of 26 studies in 9,628 patients with cardiovascular disease found clinically elevated fear of cardiac sensations in 15% to 49%, varying with the questionnaire cut-off used.
Peer-reviewed
30 Sep 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Exome sequencing of 21,958 cases and 19,826 controls in a Colombian founder population identified seven genes associated with serious mental illness, one variant raising risk more than threefold.
Preprint · not peer-reviewed
29 Sep 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Among 735,922 Korean adults diagnosed with depression, those with the most variable annual incomes had 18% higher mortality over a mean 10.3 years than those with the most stable.
Peer-reviewed
26 Sep 2026
Health today · Mental health
confirms
Among 4,945 US adults with asthma, those with depressive symptoms lived 9.9 months less over 15 years, with income accounting for about a quarter of the difference.
Peer-reviewed
26 Sep 2026
Behavioural science · Alcohol and drug use
refines
Among 176,719 deaths at ages 18-64 in Massachusetts and Minnesota, alcohol, drug and suicide causes accounted for 12% and 7% more of former service members' deaths than of non-military deaths.
Peer-reviewed
23 Sep 2026
Health today · Mental health
new
Across 163,489 US high school students surveyed from 2001 to 2021, the suicide attempt question was left blank by 21.6% of Black adolescents and 7.1% of white adolescents.
Peer-reviewed
20 Sep 2026