Many children in the USA are prescribed psychotropic drugs that have not been fully investigated in paediatric clinical trials. The common practice of prescribing psychotropic drugs off-label poses ...

As with any new drug, parents and doctors may worry that the use of GLP-1 weight-loss meds by children and teens might raise ...

The medications we have do not prevent Parkinson’s from progressing; instead, they improve a person’s quality of life.

In 2023 alone, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) poured $1.25 billion into research studying how mental illness ...

Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach. By Ellen Barry and Christina Jewett The Food and Drug Administration on ...

The Kulinda Zanzibar programme, which allows government inspectors to quickly catch unlabelled products entering the country, ...

A new study of over 10 million anonymized commercially insured patients looked at whether the use of anxiolytic (i.e., benzodiazepines), antidepressant, and antipsychotic medications is changed by ...

Psychiatric disorders are a heterogeneous group of mental disorders, manifesting as unusual mental or behavioural patterns that cause distress or disability to the individual. Many people struggle ...

Booster Therapeutics is ready to open up a new arm of the proteasome after raising $15 million in seed funding to advance small molecules it says can degrade multiple types of harmful proteins. Rather ...

2): Thank you for your hard-hitting exposé of Acadia Healthcare, a chain of psychiatric hospitals, which revealed Acadia’s corrupt financial practices. The authors report on the toxic effects ...

Soldiers live for months in the psychiatric ward. None of the patients the journalist spoke to wanted to return to the war, ...

Acadia Healthcare, a nationwide chain of psychiatric hospitals, faces new federal charges after it just agreed to a nearly ...