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MONDAY, Nov. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As the daylight hours shrink, people's moods can wind up in the tank. Rest assured, you're not alone. It’s the SAD season for those affected by seasonal affective disorder. That's the depression, fatigue and withdrawal that shorter days and longer nights often bring.“The seasonal mood change can come in different shapes and forms,” said Dr. Dorothy Sit, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. “It can be a clinical diagnosis of depression, which we call SAD, but some people experience a milder form," Sit said. "The clinical diagnosis means it is quite intense; it affects people all day for many weeks and can impact their functioning. In milder cases,...

MONDAY, Nov. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- While melanoma remains the most deadly type of skin cancer, new research has found that a subset of patients with early disease are at very low risk of dying. These particular patients may not face the same prognosis that is typically associated with melanoma, and they may potentially represent cases contributing to over-diagnosis.The findings were published online Nov. 7 in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society."Given the very low risk of death from melanoma associated with some of the cases identified in this study, and if these findings can be verified and perhaps extended in other studies, the use of a different term such as 'Melanocytic neoplasm of low malignant potential' may be more appropriate than that of...

MONDAY, Nov. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adult cancer survivors, particularly those who have undergone chemotherapy, have an increased risk for serious pelvic and vertebral fractures, new research shows."These findings are important as the number of cancer survivors living in the United States is projected to rise to 26.1 million by 2040. Research like this seeks ways for cancer survivors to have a better quality of life after their diagnosis," said study lead author Erika Rees-Punia. She is a behavioral and epidemiology researcher at the American Cancer Society."Fractures of the pelvis and vertebrae are more than just broken bones -- they are serious and costly," Rees-Punia added in a society news release. The researchers analyzed data from the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition...

SUNDAY, Nov. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Routine eye checks can help ensure seniors know if they're developing any age-related vision issues.An expert from Baylor College of Medicine spells out what seniors need to know."Don't blame vision issues on just aging eyes. Get your eyes checked out because it can be a more serious issue that can be treated," said Dr. Sumitra Khandelwal, associate professor of ophthalmology at Baylor. "If you wait too long, there may not be ability to treat it."Among the issues is dry eye. As the skin gets drier with age, so do eyes. Artificial tears can help."If your skin is dry and you wait until it's very papery to put lotion on it, it won't help as much as if you put lotion on the skin daily to prevent dryness -- the same goes for your eyes. As you get...