During a panel discussion on clinical depression at Marquette University in Wisconsin, some participants speculated that antidepressants might be over-prescribed.
An article about the event in the Marquette Tribune says one of the panel participants was Katherine Sharpe, the author of “Coming of Age on Zoloft.” Sharpe, who was first prescribed Zoloft when she was in college, questions whether the widespread practice of medical professionals automatically prescribing antidepressants harms the emotional ...
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A story in the Tampa Bay Times warns readers that a long airplane trip can put them at risk of suffering a blood clot.
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) is developing some promising forms of technology to combat traumatic brain injury in U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, Fox News reports.
Pharmaceutical companies and public health advocates worldwide are keeping an eye on a legal case in India, in which pharmaceutical giant Bayer is appealing a decision by the Indian patent controller to override the company’s monopoly on its cancer drug Nexavar.
