(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) At the 21st Congress of the ECNP 2008 in Barcelona, professor Erkki Isometsä, a renowned expert in psychiatric suicide research, presented the state of evidence concerning the relation of antidepressants and suicidal behavior and critically commented on the current discussion with regard to the role of antidepressive treatment in real-life clinical practice.

(University of Michigan Health System) Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps ease their depression symptoms. The persistence of a gender difference in response to the drug -- even after the researchers accounted for many complicating factors -- suggests that there's a real biological difference in the way the medication affects women.

I've been giving some thought to science fair projects. When my kids do projects they tend to use posterboards that already come with labels, but the last time we couldn't...

(California Institute of Technology) scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical -- and precisely programmable -- circumferences. The technological feat may allow the use of the molecular tubes in a number of nanotechnology applications.