Antipsychotics - Killers by any name - We’ve covered the health hazards of ‘atypical’ antipsychotics, including the recent FDA warning that they increase mortality among elderly patients. B...

Pushing Antidepressants: Psychiatrist does 'march of shame' - An American psychiatrist is giving his services for free in what he describes as his “march of shame” after he became an unwitting cog in Wyeth’s mark...

A Typical Deception: New antipsychotics are more expensive, but no more effective - Have the US and UK health authorities been conned yet again by the promise of a ‘new generation’ of better and more effective drugs? Atypical ant...

Antipsychotic Drugs - Olanzapine - Q My wife and daughter were both put onto olanzapine (Zyprexa) last year, having been prescribed other antipsychotic drugs for 30 and 10 years, respec...

Statins: Now children as young as 2 can have them - Children as young as two may be given statin drugs if their cholesterol levels are dangerously high, new guidelines for American doctors suggest.

News antipsychotics - Fatal figures suppressed - Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four el...

News antipsychotics - Fatal figures suppressed - Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four el...

Are new antipsychotics superior to conventional ones? - The so-called ‘atypical antipsychotic drugs’ have been hailed as a pharmaceutical breakthrough and have, by now, largely replaced the old guard of neu...