Depression
UNITED NATIONS - President Barack Obama is calling on world leaders to support new efforts to bring about peace in the Mideast, while declaring the global economy has been "pulled back from the brink of a depression."
Obama, visiting the United Nations where world leaders are gathered, says "America has joined with nations around the world to spur growth and renewed demand that could restart job creation."
On the Israeli-Palestinian issue, he tells colleagues there is an opportunity to bring to an end generations of violence and instability, and urged world leaders to support the current, renewed set of negotiations.
NEW YORK - Shares of Neurocrine Biosciences Inc.
TOKYO - Suicides and other depression cases cost Japan's economy about 2.7 trillion yen ($32 billion) last year, the government said Wednesday, releasing such data for the first time in a bid to raise public awareness of the nation's long-battled social woe.
NEWTON, Mass. - Federal regulators have accepted an application for a depression drug marketed by Clinical Data Inc., the company said Monday.
NEW YORK - Targacept Inc. on Thursday struck a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion to develop a depression drugs with AstraZeneca PLC, one of the world's largest drugmakers.
