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Doctors give mental health pills to more than one million teenagers

07/28/2019

Doctors give mental health pills to more than one million 18 to 20-year-olds in a year as the number of young people on antidepressants soars by 20% One in nine of the age group are taking the drugs to treat anxiety or bi-polar There is a risk of side effects when coming off pills including suicidal thoughts Figures found by […]

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Study: Technology and doctors combine to detect patients who don’t take their pills

01/04/2019

Almost everyone does it at some point—skip a dose of a medication, decide to not schedule a recommended follow-up appointment or ignore doctor’s orders to eat or exercise differently. Such nonadherence can seem harmless on an individual level, but costs the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year. Now, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown how to best identify […]

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