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Article: Testing new moms for depression; Doctors must offer screening -- hope is that measure will save lives

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October 17, 2007
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Three months after giving birth to a baby boy, Jennifer Mudd Houghtaling committed suicide by leaping in front of a CTA train.

During her pregnancy, she was anxious about the health of her baby. But she did not show signs of the serious depresssion that would develop after her son Brandon was born.

Perhaps if Houghtaling had been screened for depression earlier, she could have been helped.

Under a state law that takes effect Jan. 1, doctors and nurses will be required to offer depression screening tests to new moms.

The legislation will be discussed today at a conference sponsored by Mercy Hospital and the Jennifer Mudd Houghtaling Postpartum

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