Taking antidepressants during pregnancy can increase the risk of psychiatric disorders in children, according to a study put out by the National Center for Register-based Research at Aarhus University in Denmark. The study included 905,383 children born between 1998 and 2012, all of which were observed by researchers for a maximum of 16 years. … [Read more...]

Doctors – good doctors – have been known to prescribe medications to patients without sufficiently warning them of side-effects, leading, sometimes, to disastrous circumstances. In a Washington Post report last month, Janice Neumann outlined some of the various concerns and contexts surrounding this issue of poor doctor-patient communication. In … [Read more...]

The Danger of Generic Drugs It is very common for people to conflate generic drugs with their brand-name counterparts, but according to Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins, “The average American has a series of assumptions about generic and brand-name drugs that don’t hold up to historical scrutiny.” This conflation will … [Read more...]