Doctors Find Depression Strikes Many New Mothers

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The effect of post-partum depression is center stage at the murder trial of Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children.But this problem isn’t really new.In fact, officials at an Eau Claire hospital decided a couple years ago to screen new moms for signs of the problem associated with childbirth.Mary Jo Wagner has more.

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