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Dr. David Healy

Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author.

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Making medicines safer for all of us

Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals.

It’s a reasonable bet they are an even greater cause of death in non-hospital settings where there is no one to monitor things going wrong and no one to intervene to save a life. In mental health, for instance, drug-induced problems are the leading cause of death — and these deaths happen in community rather than hospital settings.

There is also another drug crisis — we are failing to discover new drugs. [Read more…]

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David Healy is a psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist and author

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Author of over 230 peer reviewed publications

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Author of 25 books covering medical treatments and healthcare

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Health, Care and Science in Real Life

October 5, 2025

This post was delivered as a Medicine in Crisis lecture at a Pills and Skills for Depression meeting that David Antonuccio organized in Reno Nevada on October 4.  Kim Witczak who features throughout the post was a panellist at the meeting.   There was an audience of over 200 primarily University of Nevada students – so…

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Request for American Psychiatric Association Assistance

September 22, 2025

Dear Dr Wills You wrote to Dr. Makary on July 25th following a July 21st FDA Panel on Antidepressants and Pregnancy. I was a panel member and hope you won’t object to me taking advantage of your closing invitation to Dr. Makary to avail of APA assistance. The panelists expressed very different views, so it…

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Partnerships in Healthcare

September 10, 2025

Following a media feeding frenzy in the wake of an FDA Panel on SSRIs in Pregnancy – see Unsafe Safety Systems –  another feeding frenzy erupted with an HHS (Health and Human Services ) statement that it was reviewing the use of Tylenol in Pregnancy and possible links to Autism. This post engages with both…

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From Just Say No to Getting to Yes

September 2, 2025

Could It Be Intelligent to Say No? The meat in this post comes from Peter Selley and centers on a new hazard of monoclonal antibodies given to infants – seizures and other neurological problems, along with deaths. The background to this post lies in Ground Control to RSV – RSVP.. It also links to Back…

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Ground Control to RSV – RSVP

August 30, 2025

An illustration of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in cross-section landing on a respiratory endothelial cell in humans. A nuclear protein core capped by large L proteins is depicted with single-stranded RNA (colored purple). The virion exterior is populated by F and G proteins, while its interior is lined by M2-1 and M proteins. G…

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