Can we do more to address long-term harms of medicine use? Learning from the DES (diethylstilboestrol) disaster

When medicines cause harm: learning from the DES disaster The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) podcast has relaunched with a new host, Dr Hannah Harris, DTB’s Clinical Editor, and a refreshed format designed to bring listeners closer to the people and evidence behind the journal. The latest ...

Little evidence to back widespread prescribing of mood-altering drugs to children for mental health issues

But current practice needs to be a lot safer, insist experts There’s limited evidence to back up the widespread and increasing rates of prescribing mood-altering drugs (psychotropics) as the mainstay of mental health treatment for children and young people, warn experts in an editorial, published today in the August issue ...

2024-07-30T10:06:12+01:0030 July 2024|Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Press release|
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