Critics Push WHO to Remove Transgender from List of Mental Illnesses
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently lists being transgender as a medical condition and mental illness. Critics argue that the worldâs leading health organization...
âWhat Does Scientific Reproducibility Mean, Anyway?â
The Watchdogs at STAT, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, dive into the replication crisis in medicine and psychology ask wonder, âwhat does reproducibility really...
Illness Inflation: Expanded Medical Definitions Create More Patients
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has issued a watchdog report titled âIllness Inflationâ that examines how new medical conditions are often the product of industry...
âBayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hellâ
For CounterPunch, Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins comment on the announcement that Bayer has placed a bid to buy Monsanto. âBayer and Monsanto both...
âLawmakers Accuse HHS of Delaying FDA Guidelines for Off-Label Marketingâ
Ed Silverman reports for STATâs Pharmalot that high-ranking congressmen are accusing the Department of Health and Human Services of deliberately delaying new guidelines on...
âFeds Probe Drugmaker-Charity Connectionsâ
Last week, reports circulated about a system through which drug companies used charitable giving for profit. Now, three drug manufacturers, Gilead Sciences Inc., Biogen...
Rising Prescriptions, Rising Disability: Video from the UK Parliament
Mental health campaigner Chrys Muirheadâs blog features video from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence event on 11 May 2016 at Westminster....
In Praise of Patience as a Prescription for Trauma
For Aeon, Samira Thomas writes that while resilience is attracting a lot of attention from psychology, patience in an underexplored and undervalued virtue in...
âA Community Faces the Mental Health Impact of Climate Changeâ
âIn Nunatsiavut, climate change is already a terrible reality, and itâs taking a heavy toll on mental health,â Ellie Robins reports for the influence....
ââDisease AwarenessââHow Big Pharma Preps You to Buy Drugs You Probably Don’t Need”
The latest from Martha Rosenberg: âPharma companies love disease awareness advertising because, unlike direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, risks and warnings of possible drug treatments do...
âNew Course on ‘Making Sense’ of Trauma, Creating a Coherent Narrativeâ
PsychAlive is releasing a new blog and e-course on âMaking Sense of Your Life,â with psychologists Lisa Firestone and Dan Siegel. They draw upon the...
âFrance Tightens Rules in Wake of Fatal Clinical Trial Disasterâ
After a clinical trial killed one person and landed five others in intensive care, the government is demanding that the clinical trial company responsible, Biotrial,...
âThe Hefty Price of âStudy Drugsâ Misuse on College Campusesâ
For the Conversation, Binghamton University researcher Lina Begdache tackles the issue of the growing use of 'Study Drugs' in the student population. âAnimal studies show...
âThe Hidden Harms of Antidepressantsâ
In a new article for Scientific American, Diana Kwon reports on how the true risks for suicide and aggression in children and teens taking...
âWorld Benzodiazepine Awareness Day Set for July 11thâ
The 11 July 2016 will be the inaugural World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, part of a campaign to raise global awareness about the issue of doctor-induced benzodiazepine dependency, which affects...
âHow Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikesâ
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that âU.S. taxpayers support a billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is, in effect, a very profitable form of investing for...
âIs Depression an Illness? Or Part of the Human Condition?â
Psychotherapist Chantal Marie Gagnon voices her frustration with social media posts and stigma reduction ads that perpetuate the belief that all mental health issues...
“We Need to Better Detect Depression but that Shouldnât mean more Medication”
The Conversation explores the proposition that "while it is important that the detection of depression is improved and that suffering is alleviated, simply writing...
BPS Hosts âBeyond Psychiatric Diagnosisâ Legal Event
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is hosting a free event aimed at the legal community and politicians on the controversy around the use of...
âPsych Drug Link to Violent Episodes Analysedâ
The Irish Examiner reports on research by Yolande Lucire connecting antidepressant-induced akathisia to violent episodes. The research concludes that the âmedicalisation of common human...
âStudy Reveals Benzodiazepines Frequently Prescribed to High-Risk Patientsâ
A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that benzodiazepines are prescribed at high doses to patients at a high rate...
âPsychiatric Drugs Killing More Users than Heroin, Cocaine, Say Health Expertsâ
A groundbreaking article for The Province is âsounding the alarm over the heightened risk of death linked to the use of psychiatric drugs.â They report on...
âMy Response to Responses to My Critique of âSkepticismâ”
Following up on the responses to his talk criticizing âskeptics,â science journalist John Horgan defends the work of Robert Whitaker and Anatomy of an...
Coyne Covers Citalopram Controversy
In his âMind the Brainâ blog for PLOS, well-known researcher James Coyne reviews the controversy surrounding the latest case of a fraudulently reported study...
âWhy We Shouldnât Trade a Weakened FDA for More Medical Research Fundsâ
Ed Silverman at STAT reports that Congress has linked increased research funding to âfast-trackâ approval procedures. âBy linking the extra funds to speedier approvals,...
