What Doctors Don't Tell YouNew research reveals that doctors need to think twice before prescribing antidepressants, and patients should think three times before taking them.
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The Committee on Safety of Medicines may consider limiting the use of the older and potentially more toxic tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, unless GPs reduce the number of prescrip ...
There are many better alternatives than drugs for depression. Here's a short summary. For more detailed information, see WDDTY, vol 6 no 6, and the WDDTY Guide to Mental Health
First up is the 74-year-old woman who has been prescribed Mirtazapina for her depression. But what are the drug's side effects, she wonders? Well, quite a few, say our readers, and enough to make you. .
Long term use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the Pill greatly increases the risk of breast cancer in older women, researchers have found. ...
Despite the advent of new antidepressant drugs such as the SSRIs, psychiatrists are still prescribing the older tricyclic drugs, the best known of which are amitriptyline and imipramine.
Just to confound those who think that E-news constitutes the blatherings of an ill-educated slob, let's start with a really long word - psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology, which sounds like the supercalafragalistic of medicine.
Cook with olive oil and you could ward off depression and dementia. The two new studies that make the discoveries add to the mounting evidence that a diet high in fatty acids is good for you afte ...
What depressing reading your WDDTY vol 14 no 10 made - rightly headed ‘Depression’. It seems that Big Pharma will go to any lengths to sell its products, irrespective of whether they have been tested or not.
