Clinicians are facing “huge pressure” with soaring demand for menopause treatment, a leading expert said. It comes as the number of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) items prescribed in England last year almost doubled before the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Paula Briggs, chair of the British Menopause Society (BMS) and sexual and reproductive health consultant at Liverpool Women’s…
Scientists Warn ‘No Reliable Evidence’ Antidepressants Can Treat Chronic Pain
Scientists have warned many antidepressants given to UK chronic pain patients are being prescribed without adequate evidence of their effectiveness. A major investigation into medications has found that despite hundreds of thousands of people being given recommended drugs to manage long-term pain, there is “no reliable evidence” for their long-term safety or reliability. The two-year…
Amazon Launches a Subscription Prescription Drug Service
Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. Amazon said people will pay $5 a month to fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of about 50…
Anti-Psychotic Prescriptions for Children in England Have Nearly Doubled in a Decade
The number of children and young people prescribed anti-psychotic drugs in England almost doubled between 2000 and 2019, according to new research. A study by the University of Manchester’s Centre for Women’s Mental Health published in The Lancet Psychiatry looked at the records of 7.2 million children and adolescents, aged 3 to 18, registered at…
New Program Helps Pediatricians Prescribe Kindness
When parents take their children to a pediatrician for a wellness check, they expect to get reports on their children’s healthy development—if they’re growing properly, eating and sleeping well, or in need of vaccines. They probably don’t expect to get a prescription for kindness. But at Senders Pediatrics, a private practice in Cleveland and one…
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