The harmful misconception that antidepressants are ‘no better than placebo’ is a popular one, making the rounds year after year.  Equivocations like this are not only false but a gross misrepresentation of the evidence.  A new meta-analysis published in the Lancet will hopefully take this falsehood behind the barn and put it down for good. […]

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Alzheimer’s disease is a notoriously difficult condition to diagnose, often only being confirmed at autopsy. The disease affects millions of people, but current tests such as PET scans and CSF samples are expensive, time-consuming, and invasive. A paradigm-shifting test for Alzheimer’s has been developed by a joint Japanese-Australian team which screens for specific biomarkers in […]

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