Screening for postpartum depression is a valuable safeguard. It is not, however, all we have to do. There is little debate that our most reliable and valid screening tool for postpartum depression, ...

Implementing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in the pediatric primary care setting can improve rates of early detection for postpartum depression. Screening new mothers for postpartum ...

A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that the neighbors thought so too. Over ...

Medicaid reimbursement was associated with more billed postpartum depression (PPD) screens and higher probability of the mother being diagnosed and treated. Medicaid-insured mothers have higher rates ...

Editor’s Note: This article was revised in May 2024 to reflect newly available peripartum mental health data and the 2023 ACOG clinical practice guideline pertaining to screening for mental health ...

Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. Training ...

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family ...

Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. “Training ...

The FDA has recently approved a new medication to treat postpartum depression. This news comes on the heels of a tragic incident of infanticide and suicide by a Mount Sinai physician. We don’t know if ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 7 and 42 days postpartum, women who received dexmedetomidine had lower positive postpartum depression rates.