Businesses and governments should allocate more money to understanding and
alleviating depression, researchers told the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, last week. In any six-month period, 7 per cent of the world鈥檚
population suffers from serious depression with staggering economic and social
costs, Raymond DePaulo of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.
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