July 10 (UPI) --Loneliness dramatically increases a person's risk of depression and poor health, a new study says. Half of folks who say they always feel lonely (50%) have clinical depression, ...

Survey data collected from nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. found that 4 in 5 report some loneliness, with levels strongly correlated with poor mental health days, and poor physical health days ...

Frequent loneliness was associated with a higher probability of depression and an increased number of poor mental and physical health days per month than never feeling lonely in a new survey-based ...

New research from the University of Toronto found that childhood neglect, even in the absence of childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse, is linked with a wide range of mental and physical health ...

Half of those who say they always feel lonely (50%) have clinical depression, compared with just 10% of those who report never feeling lonely, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.