A recent report on CBS’s 60 Minutes questions whether antidepressants are any more effective than placebos.
The report features an interview with Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Placebo Studies Program at Harvard Medical School, who says clinical trials simply don’t show a clinically significant advantage to antidepressants over dummy sugar pills.
“People get better when they take the drug,” Kirsch acknowledges. “But it’s not the chemical ingredients of the pills that ...
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Fox News gives an account of a man who survived a two-and-a-half-foot blood clot stretching from his knee to his abdomen.
A stroke always occurs because of an interruption of blood flow to the brain. But a number of different underlying factors add to the risk of stroke, including recent surgery, long periods of immobility, a family history of blood clots, pregnancy and use of birth control pills.
