Freakonomic Mental Health
TweetMore antidepressants please…and bump up the Ritalin too. That seems to be the suggestion from this study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US, making a link between new...
View ArticleRespecting the right to die…revisited
TweetWith the recording of a narrative verdict following the inquest, the death of Kerrie Woolterton is once again making headlines. I wrote about this case of a young woman presenting with...
View ArticleIAPT: The best laid schemes
TweetOh dear, Lord Layard will not be happy, but Zoe Williams will be. It looks like the wheels may be coming off the UK government’s plans to provide cognitive behavioural therapy for all – Improving...
View ArticleRight to a fair trial: St John’s wort
TweetThe updated NICE guideline for depression is just out. Here is what it has to say about St John’s wort: Although there is evidence that St John’s wort may be of benefit in mild or moderate...
View ArticleWhat would US health care reform mean for mental health?
Tweet“I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year. ” President Obama sounds confident following the passage of the health bill through House of...
View ArticleSoldier Suicides
Tweet“Of the more than 30000 people who fall to suicide nationwide each year, 20 per cent are veterans. About 18 veterans commit suicide every day”. The US Veterans Affairs Secretary, Eric Shinseki,...
View ArticleThe trials of AstraZeneca
Tweet‘Key opinion leaders’ peddling propaganda for drug companies for a tidy sum, the burial of data on adverse effects from clinical trials, the promotion of new or exaggerated diagnoses to invigorate...
View ArticleSkype, freemasonry, and the International Healing Foundation: more strange...
TweetFollowing last year’s Sex and the City conference in London, Patrick Strudwick writes in the Independent of his undercover exploits in the world of reparative therapy: therapists claiming great...
View ArticleDSM-5 online
TweetFollowing a year of bitter exchanges about secrecy with accusations flying of vested interests and industry ties the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has posted the new, fifth edition of the...
View ArticleMore trials of AstraZeneca
TweetOne down, 25,999 to go. Following allegations about the mendacious marketing of Seroquel (quetiapine) discussed in BBC Radio’s File on 4 programme, AstraZeneca has won the first of 26,000 lawsuits...
View ArticleFreakonomic Mental Health
More antidepressants please…and bump up the Ritalin too. That seems to be the suggestion from this study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US, making a link between new drug...
View ArticleRespecting the right to die…revisited
With the recording of a narrative verdict following the inquest, the death of Kerrie Woolterton is once again making headlines. I wrote about this case of a young woman presenting with self-poisoning...
View ArticleIAPT: The best laid schemes
Oh dear, Lord Layard will not be happy, but Zoe Williams will be. It looks like the wheels may be coming off the UK government’s plans to provide cognitive behavioural therapy for all – Improving...
View ArticleRight to a fair trial: St John’s wort
The updated NICE guideline for depression is just out. Here is what it has to say about St John’s wort: Although there is evidence that St John’s wort may be of benefit in mild or moderate depression,...
View ArticleWhat would US health care reform mean for mental health?
“I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year. ” President Obama sounds confident following the passage of the health bill through House of...
View ArticleSoldier Suicides
“Of the more than 30000 people who fall to suicide nationwide each year, 20 per cent are veterans. About 18 veterans commit suicide every day”. The US Veterans Affairs Secretary, Eric Shinseki, was...
View ArticleThe trials of AstraZeneca
‘Key opinion leaders’ peddling propaganda for drug companies for a tidy sum, the burial of data on adverse effects from clinical trials, the promotion of new or exaggerated diagnoses to invigorate the...
View ArticleSkype, freemasonry, and the International Healing Foundation: more strange...
Following last year’s Sex and the City conference in London, Patrick Strudwick writes in the Independent of his undercover exploits in the world of reparative therapy: therapists claiming great results...
View ArticleDSM-5 online
Following a year of bitter exchanges about secrecy with accusations flying of vested interests and industry ties the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has posted the new, fifth edition of the...
View ArticleMore trials of AstraZeneca
One down, 25,999 to go. Following allegations about the mendacious marketing of Seroquel (quetiapine) discussed in BBC Radio’s File on 4 programme, AstraZeneca has won the first of 26,000 lawsuits...
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