What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn my early 30s, I was prescribed dothiepin by my GP for joint pain. When I told him I was not depressed, he said you can be depressed without knowing it.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: The suicide watch
JUST ANOTHER BILL. . .
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: They don't work (but don't tell anyone)
The thrust of our New Year's issue this month is that the way to health is not a superhighway on which all of us can motor in the same direction, but a dirt road that we have to navigate to and tread along single-file. The incalculable contribution...
We’ve covered the health hazards of ‘atypical’ antipsychotics, including the recent FDA warning that they increase mortality among elderly patients. But a new study has just been published that draws the same conclusion for the older, ‘conventional’...
MIND AND BODY: How a positive attitude can help you survive bypass sur
The maverick practice of off-label prescribing - giving drugs for unapproved conditions/patients - is once again in the limelight. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against using ‘atypical antipsychotics’ to treat...
MIND AND MATTER: What we think can make us ill (and well)
Schizophrenia is now widely believed to be due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, and powerful psychoactive drugs are used to control it.
