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Concerns about whether antidepressants cause harms to developing fetuses, including neurodevelopmental disorders, have grown in recent years. Now, a group of researchers has published the best ...

In a brief appearance at a Make America Healthy Again Institute event Monday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new federal initiatives to curb prescribing of ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is announcing steps that he said are aimed at helping wean some Americans off psychiatric medications, including antidepressants. “Too many patients begin ...

A new study is dampening some of the hype surrounding psychedelic therapy. It found that drugs like LSD and psilocybin are only as good as — but no better than — antidepressants when it comes to ...

But in trials of antidepressants, participants may not figure out whether they have received the drug or a placebo, which makes it hard to compare them with psychedelics. To get around this problem, ...

It’s become common to talk about and SSRIs (short for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants) the way people talk about supplements: a passing mention, a joke in a group ...

Soumerai is a professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School. Lu is a professor at the Sydney Pharmacy School of the University of Sydney. While his war on vaccines may be getting more ...

Antidepressants can be a lifesaving medication for people struggling with a serious mental health disorder. But if you’ve been doing great on antidepressants for what feels like forever, it’s fair to ...

Slow tapering with psychological support is as effective as continued medication in preventing depression relapse. Abrupt discontinuation and fast tapering result in higher relapse rates compared to ...

In early 2023, Liana Shatova began taking low doses of an antidepressant to ease symptoms of a premenstrual disorder marked by mood swings, anxiety and depression. At first, the difference was ...