Antipsychotics During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Problems
“Live, healthy babies are the most common outcome following the use of antipsychotic medication in pregnancy,” conclude Australian researchers in a study that was...
No Evidence PTSD Treatments Helping Veterans
No one has been tracking whether or not US veterans have been benefiting in any way from over $3.2 billion annually in mental health...
Experts Demand Shutdown of ECT Study
A group of mental health experts are calling for Manchester University and the UK National Institute for Health Research to immediately suspend and investigate...
Corrupt Pharma Execs Could Soon Face Jail in Canada
Pharmaceutical industry executives who mislead the public could soon face fines of up to $5 million or two years in jail in Canada. According...
Therapy Better than Antidepressants for Staying Employed
Examining the link between depression and loss of employment, a study by American researchers in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that cognitive therapy...
Pharma Execs Consider Fleeing China’s Corruption Crackdown
Business Week has run a Reuters Shanghai article recounting how increasing numbers of senior drug company executives are considering leaving China due to the...
Psychiatrization of Children Explored
An entire special issue of the journal Children & Society is dedicated to examining questions surrounding “psychiatrised children.” Various studies explore how rarely children’s...
In-school Exercise a Help for Attention Deficits
Researcher Michele Tine of Dartmouth College’s Poverty and Learning Lab reports in the journal Frontiers in Psychology that 12 minutes of aerobic exercise caused...
Europe Announces Policy on Medical Trial Data Access Amidst Criticism
The European Medicines Agency has announced a new policy that it says will open public access to pharmaceutical companies’ medical trial data. The new...
Both Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy Effect Sizes Small
In a review of 852 trials of pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for major psychiatric disorders, involving 137,126 patients, an international team of researchers found that...
Childhood Residential Mobility Linked to Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder
Noting that "childhood adversity is gaining increasing attention as a plausible etiological factor in the development of psychotic disorders," researchers from Johns Hopkins, Aarhus...
Keris Myrick: Associate Director of Consumer Affairs for SAMHSA
Keris Myrick, MIA blogger and, as of today, the former chair of the board of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, will be the...
Mental Health Care is the Third Highest Medical Expense in U.S.
A study published today in Jama Psychiatry finds that mental health care ties with cancer for the third highest medical expense in the United...
Risk of Premature Death and Violent Crime Associated With Schizophrenia Diagnoses Rising
Rates of adverse outcomes, including premature death and violent crime, have increased among people with schizophrenia and related diagnoses since the 1970s when compared to...
Pfizer to Pay $325M for False Neurontin Marketing
After ten years of litigation, Pfizer has agreed to pay $325 million for marketing its anticonvulsant Neurontin for unapproved purposes. The settlement comes six...
Psychostimulants Harm Performance, as Well as Neuroplasticity
A review of "potential neurobiological ramifications of the popular cognitive enhancers," in Frontiers of Systems Neuroscience, finds that stimulants reduce performance at higher dosages, and...
Military Court Hears Arguments Re: Chantix-Related Murder Defense
Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard arguments on Tuesday for the defense of former Army paratrooper George D.B....
How Evidence-Based Medicine is Failing Due to Biased Trials and Selective Publication
When evidence-based medicine (EBM) was announced in the early 90s, according to a paper in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, it was hailed...
Convicted Murderer Blames Chantix; Appeals Judge’s Refusal to Subpoena Pfizer
Army Pfc. George D.B. MacDonald, convicted in 2009 of stabbing and slashed a sleeping recruit whom he did not know, is appealing his judge's...
High Doses of Antidepressants Increase Self-Harm in Children, Young Adults
A comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized trial data by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health finds that children and young adults who start...
Congressman to Propose “Parental Protection Act” to Congress
Inspired by the plight of Justina Pelletier's family, Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) will introduce a bill to Congress that proposes to cut off funds...
“Psychiatric Drugs Are Doing Us More Harm Than Good” – Peter Gøtzsche
Peter Gøtzsche comments in The Guardian, on the occasion of the launch of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, that "My studies of the research...
Antipsychotics Given to 68.3% of British With Learning Disabilities
Analysis of a survey of 104 provider organizations - representing 3,250 service users in September of 2013 - finds that over two-thirds of British...
FDA to Review Chantix’ Psychiatric Side Effects
The Food & Drug Administration announced today it will convene a public meeting in October to review the psychiatric and behavioral side effects of...
ADHD Prescribing Differs Substantially in UK vs. US
An article in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry finds that the UK's new guidelines for treating attention and depression problems in children recommend a...
