Health roundup: Talk helps when depression meds fail

Your Friday morning health roundup:

Talk therapy: Depression is a stubborn illness, but when a few months of medication don't work, adding talk therapy may help, a new study shows. Nearly half of depressed patients who added sessions of so-called cognitive behavioral therapy saw substantial relief, British researchers say. (MedPage Today)

Men and cancer: U.S. men who get cancer are more likely to die from it than women are, a new analysis shows. One big reason: Men's cancers are diagnosed at later, more advanced stages. (Reuters)

Faulty genes: Gene detectives say they have a surprising new finding: The average, apparently-healthy person has roughly 400 genetic defects, including a couple linked to diseases. That's more imperfection than they expected to find. (NPR)

Today's talker: TV cooking segments have long horrified food safety experts -- what with all the flinging around of raw meat and poultry. Now they can point to a high-profile victim: Martha Stewart tells the New York Post's Page Six that she came down with salmonella, a form of food poisoning, after doing several segments last month: "I think I caught it because I was handling so many turkeys around Thanksgiving. I was on the 'Today' show, I did a number of other [Thanksgiving] appearances. It really hit me hard and I was in bed for days. It was terrible."