Watchdog says the recently updated “Declaration of Helsinki” Medical Research Code reinforces experiments on unconsenting ...

CCHR says a more meaningful apology and appropriate compensation are needed for psychiatric and eugenics policies that still ...

Autism, birth defects, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) — these are among the many serious health conditions newborn babies face whose mothers take selective serotonin reuptake ...

When the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders hits the stores on May 22nd, it will signal the end of a fraught thirteen-year ...

“Based on the evidence already available, for-profit and privately owned psychiatric hospitals should be stripped of the authority to involuntarily detain patients, and closures must be swift for ...

Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution 52/12 on mental health and human rights, which calls on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a ...

“Pharmaceutical companies and prescribers have a greater duty to warn consumers about risks such as violent or suicidal thoughts. While not all patients will experience violent behavior, the evidence ...

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of the brain damage, long-term memory loss, and… ...

The psychiatrist’s research was once equated in cruelty with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African Americans; an expert questioned if a study was a violation… ...

The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...