Antidepressants: The baddest of the bad is revealed - Antidepressants are a family of drugs that are bad and dangerous to know – and now researchers have named Effexor (venlafaxine) as the baddest of the...

No Free Lunch: Docs take arms against drug company ‘incentives’ - OK, it’s time to come clean. Not all doctors are bad guys, despite our title. In fact, there’s a group of them in America and the UK who’ve formed t...

Psychiatry: - Closed doors, closed minds - Anyone who sees medicine as a closed group, especially to 'troublemakers' who want to complain, might have to adjust their superlatives should they ev...

Antidepressant linked with withdrawal symptoms - For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit takin...

Name and shame - In a list of the most shameful aspects of modern medicine, psychiatry must come at the top of the heap. This is the discipline that has given us - in...

Teenage Suicides: Are antidepressants the unrecognized cause? - More teenagers are taking their own lives – but coroners may be failing to recognise that antidepressants are to blame, an expert says.

Psychiatric labels - Herbal help: a natural approach to mental illness - Herbal remedies are enjoying an increasing popularity as alternatives to conventional drugs for psychiatric conditions. Nevertheless, most of the stud...

Antidepressant: Drug may cause birth defects - Women who take the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil in the USA, and Seroxat in the UK) while they are pregnant could be putting their unborn baby at r...