FDA Finally Recognized the Widespread Adderall Shortage
After patients reported weeks of not being able to access their medications, the FDA acknowledges the problem.
If Migraines Are Ruining Your Life, This New Platform Can Help
Cove lets you get meds online, chat with specialists, and even find out why some people have headaches when they orgasm.
'Not Just for the Money': What it’s Like to Be A Human Lab Rat
"The food is pretty average, kind of like mid-2000’s highway servo gourmet. Fulfils a function, but at what cost?"
This Drug Helped My Chronic Pain – But It's Also Killing People
The messy fallout of the gabapentin scandal.
Do You Want to Be Sad, or Skinny? The Slippery Solution of Wellbutrin
The internet is full of soft chatter about the weight loss effects of an antidepressant not recommended for those with eating disorders—but that gets prescribed to them anyway.
Coronavirus Quarantine Is Hell for People With Anxiety Disorders: ‘I Couldn't Stop Clicking On Everything’
Everything becomes a stresser: fear of spreading the illness, standing in grocery store lines, and grappling with their own mortality.
8 States Are Trying to Make the Medical Treatment of Trans Kids a Crime
Getting medical care that trans and nonbinary kids need is already hard. In several places, it could get even more difficult.
The Psychiatric 'Wonder Drug' That Almost No One Is Using
Clozapine could save the lives of suicidal schizophrenic people who aren't responding to other treatments. So why are so few doctors using it?
'Birth Control,' Today's Comic by Tara Booth
Tara is feeling frisky after finishing her first week of birth control.
The Need for Patient Advocacy When You're Black in the Doctor's Office
Doctors tells us the most effective ways to advocate for a friend or family member.
How to Tell if You Should See a Psychiatrist Versus a Psychologist
As a general rule, television shows and movies completely screw this up.
How Can You Treat Someone Who Doesn't Think They're Mentally Ill?
Laws are being passed that make it possible to compel people to receive treatment for health problems they don’t believe they have.