Tamoxifen: 1001 uses of cancer drug extends to bipolar disorder - Tamoxifen is the world’s best-selling drug for breast cancer. It’s also used to treat infertility, it’s given to men with gynecomastia (enlarged brea...

Bipolar: The age of your father may play a part in mood swings - The age of your father when you were born may be a factor in determining whether you will suffer from bipolar disorder, or severe mood swings.

Individualised approach to bipolar disorder - Orthomolecular specialists such as the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in the US and the Optimum Nutrition Institute in the UK offer highly individualised t...

Psychiatric labels - An epidemic in children’s mental healthcare - The growing ‘grey’ population may be raking in the cash for drug companies, but look at the other end of the age spectrum and you’ll also see burgeoni...

Dementia: - The drugs don't work, but so much can - Medicine's standard response to dementia is a prescription drug, ranging from an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or a mood stabilizer. But a new stu...

Hrt: need for better trials - The benefits of hormone replacement therapy could be cancelled out by their risks, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. ....

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.

Iuds:hidden infections - While the Lancet was trumpeting the safety of long term placement of interuterine devices, the New England Journal of Medicine warned they could cause...