Patients being treated with older style antidepressant drugs are far more likely to attempt suicide than those using more modern medication, according to an American study. ...
'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 ...'
Fluoxetine under the brand name Prozac was introduced by Eli Lilly in 1987 as a safer kind of antidepressant. Experience, however, suggests that far from being safer, Prozac may be highly dangero ...
Summer’s here, and with many of you heading to some far-flung corner of the world, the Food and Drug Administration, America’s drugs regulator, has conveniently issued a special warning about Lariam, the antimalarial drug.
MALARIA DRUG: Join the queue
’Tis the season that brings to mind auld acquaintances, and Roaccutane (isotretinoin), the acne drug, is fully deserving of the biggest Drug of the Month welcome.
I am no longer a psychiatrist. I renounce it because I believe cruelty is at the core of the profession.
In my early days in the field,
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 ...
A drug which could cause suicidal depression has been licenced by the American Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis. ...
A new declaration of patients' rights drawn up by medicine's conscience, the World Medical Association, seems to offer very little in the way of rights when the chips are down. ...