I looked around when I heard someone crying, and there was Pollyanna bawling her eyes out. That’s how depressing was the one-two punch of pessimism in Paul Krugman’s and Bob Herbert’s New York Times pay-to-peruse columns of today.
Just in time for the elections, the pair paint a picture of America so dreary you half-expected the […]
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that doctors prescribe the smallest quantity of Wyeth’s Effexor possible to help protect patients from fatally overdosing on the antidepressant pills.
The agency announced changes to the drug’s labeling today based on evidence of patients overdosing on the popular antidepressant, usually when taking it in combination with […]
Best-selling antidepressant drugs may be making some men infertile, according to research reported yesterday. The warning follows a study of two men at Cornell Medical Centre in New York whose sperm counts dropped dramatically to almost zero while taking the drugs, but recovered to healthy levels whenever their medication was suspended.
The men were tested over […]
America {hearts}s Jonathan Adler. The potter-turned-designer-turned-cheeky little taste pooh-bah has become a national design mascot, and how we love to exalt him.
He can put breasts on a vase, and we’ll buy it; turn a giraffe into a lamp, and modern moms want it for the nursery; slap “Prozac” on a jar, sell it for $78, […]
Washington, Oct 16: A new study published in the American Psychological Association (APA) shows that teenagers taking common anti-depressants may become more aggressive and commit suicide, which is a clear indication that these medications affect adult and juvenile brains differently.
Neuroscientists at the University of Texas at Austin found that juvenile hamsters given low doses of […]
A single, modest dose of Viagra® (sildenafil) considerably worsened a severe kind of snoring called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in 14 middle-aged men given the drug before bedtime, Brazilian scientists have found.
The study doesn’t just have implications for the snorers’ partners but for the snorers’ health, because OSA can lead to dangerously low levels of […]