What Doctors Don't Tell YouLearn to manage your anger if you want to avoid a heart attack that's the message from researchers at the University of North Carolina. ...
For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit taking.
Doctors in nursing homes prescribe antipsychotic drugs with the same lack of thought that the service staff employs to place the order for tomorrow's newspapers. Most of the elderly residents have dementia, or so the doctors conclude, and so an...
Environmental illness is all in the head and in a very disturbed head, at that. ...
When a drug is dangerous - it might be known to kill or seriously injure - the regulators act quickly and decisively. And they don't pull their punches either. Their most deadly weapon is - a typographical device. And make no mistake, they're not...
One old woman perplexed her neighbours, and doctors, by her sudden change of temperament and behaviour every autumn. Once the clocks were changed, she would start hallucinating, suffering delusions
Anyone who sees medicine as a closed group, especially to 'troublemakers' who want to complain, might have to adjust their superlatives should they ever try to break down the doors of psychiatry. Psychiatry is the most secret of groups, almost...
We’re always told that drug prescribing is all about a careful balance between risk and benefit. People suffering from severe depression do need help, and occasionally a prescribed antidepressant can be helpful. But new research reveals that doctors...
'When you find a drug which helps you, do not try and persuade your medical advisor to cut the length of the treatment short. You may find when you take drugs that you improve quickly but do remember that depression is an illness ...'
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: They're great for two-year-olds
