A new report due to be published in the May issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that antidepressants aren't all they're cracked up to be.
But, faithful readers, you already knew that. Right?
The report is part of the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) project – the largest study of the treatment of depression conducted in the United States. It showed that findings from clinical studies used ...
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Drugs comprise the major treatment modality of scientific medicine. A recent article in the New York Times revealed that over half of Americans regularly take prescription drugs for chronic health problems. Sadly, many people don’t realize that the drugs they’re taking could be making their condition worse.
Most drugs don’t cure illness. They just suppress symptoms. Unfortunately, drugs also suppress functions. Though drugs provide symptom relief in the short term, over ...
The U.S. spent 16 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - a cool $2 trillion - on health care in 2005.[1. Park, A. America's Health Check Up. 11/20/2008. Time Magazine Online.] Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be reversing disease, preventing disease, and doing minimal harm. However, careful and objective review shows the opposite.
The U.S. ranks just 34th in the world in life ...
If you read the papers or watch the news you've probably heard about the recently published JUPITER study, advertised with bold headlines such as "Cholesterol drug causes risk of heart attack to plummet" and "Cholesterol-fighting drug shows wider benefit". If you've been following this blog (and perhaps even if you haven't), you are by now aware that such claims cannot be taken at face value.
You might suspect, for example, that the study was sponsored by ...
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