[links] health/psych: migraines, anorexia death rts, broken hearts, magenta, antidepressant cartoons
NYT article on migraines
"Everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches — except that they are among the worst nonfatal afflictions of humankind — may be wrong. At least that’s what headache researchers now maintain. From long-maligned dietary triggers to the underlying cause of the headaches themselves, longstanding beliefs have been brought into question by recent studies.
As if that were not enough dogma to overturn, there is growing evidence that almost all so-called sinus headaches are really migraines."

megmuck links to research on Anorexia death rates.
"The researchers studied the records of some 6,000 patients covering a 30-year period (1973 to 2003). Out of the cohort studied, 265 died during the 30-year follow-up. The most frequent causes of death were suicide (responsible for 32 percent of the deaths), anorexia (19 percent of the deaths), and cancer (11 percent of the deaths)... Altogether, anorexia patients were six times more likely to have died during the 30-year follow-up period than was the general population."

thnidu links to research on severe depression leading to heart disease
"Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people's outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place."

Plus, some lesser bits I saved in case I might want to use them in the future:
Magenta Ain't a (Spectral) Color
cartoon "Maybe you should lay off the antidepressants"
Incidentally, can anyone figure out a way to save the preceding image as a separate file? I was going to use it in a powerpoint for class, but couldn't.
The next cartoon, on the other hand, I had no trouble with: