Australia has among the highest antidepressant prescribing rates in the world.
- Research Leader, Critical and Ethical Mental Health research group, Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University
As part of an intiative to re-examine misrepresented or abandoned studies, we re-analysed an antidepressant trial. Here’s what we found.
Around half of teens who experience a brief episode of depression or anxiety do not go on to have a mental illness in adulthood, according to a study from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Half…
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
As the Commonwealth Government’s community consultation period for mental health reform comes to an end this week, health bureaucrats will begin finalising Australia’s Ten year roadmap for national mental…
“When people get sick or injured or want advice about their health, they want to see a doctor” Dr Andrew Pesce, AMA President. As a child psychiatrist, I work with general practitioners to enhance the…
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