As a psychiatrist, I have prescribed these anti-depressants to hundreds of people and, yes, there can be serious side effects, but those are very rare.

We should be tough about limiting the insurance burden for such drugs to those who do have serious illness, but if people pay for safe psychopharmacology, that should be their choice.

Drug regulators in Britain urge doctors not to use certain antidepressants, but in the United States officials have yet to make up their minds on safety issues.

A review of Ronald Dworkin's book Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class.

Why aren't we closer to understanding the relationship between manifest illness and its underlying causes?

What does it take to get the FDA to revisit a precedent?

The Food and Drug Administration should not allow sensationalism in the media to unduly influence its treatment of SSRIs and anti-depressant drugs.

The medical profession has suffered some serious self-inflicted wounds, and a new book by Carl Elliott focuses on how he thinks medicine has gone wrong but is short on solutions.