Interactive Parent-Child Therapy Helps Kids Who Have Depression

An interactive therapy involving parents and their depressed children can reduce rates of depression and lower the severity of kids’ symptoms, researchers have found. The discovery, by investigators from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was published in The American Journal of Psychiatry. Experts emphasize the importance of early treatment of depression… Continue reading Interactive Parent-Child Therapy Helps Kids Who Have Depression

Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health

When you take prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications, do you take also a vitamin, mineral, or other dietary supplements? Have you considered whether there is any danger in mixing medications and dietary supplements? There could be, says Robert Mozersky, a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “Some dietary supplements may increase the… Continue reading Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health