In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader unhappy with the side effects of their antidepressants.

Powerful psychotropic drugs are often the next step, even though their combined effects in young children haven’t been ...

A “deprescribing” movement is building up in the psychiatry field, aimed at helping patients reduce or stop their medications ...

Wean slowly: Minimize withdrawal symptoms by gradually decreasing your caffeine intake over a period of 4 to 6 weeks, rather than quitting cold turkey. 7 If you do need to stop caffeine abruptly, aim ...

Q. I was on a 14-day course of prednisone for vertigo. Once I stopped, I had terrible withdrawal symptoms that have persisted for more than 10 days.

Eli Lilly and Company, along with partner institutions in the US and United Kingdom, describe how short-term pharmacologic ...

GLP-1 medicines cause malnutrition in 22% of patients. Multivitamins are often inadequate. Patients need dietitian support ...

If you are quitting smoking, you may develop symptoms like coughing and fatigue, called "smoker's flu." Nicotine replacement therapy can ease smoker's flu and other withdrawal symptoms. You can try ...

MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior in mice modeling infection.

If there’s one thing you don’t want to endure, it’s the symptoms of norovirus, which also goes by the unfortunately apt moniker of “winter vomiting disease:” It triggers brutal GI upset for roughly ...

Sometimes life hurls a difficult, unexpected (and costly) event your way, and you find yourself wondering how you're going to pay for it. Hopefully you'd be able to rely on any money you set aside in ...

WASHINGTON — Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine. Mixing up drug names ...