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A recent study in the British Medical Journal Open that looked at the effect of abortion laws on maternal mortality in Mexico is egregiously flawed and biased. Written by ten anti-choice authors, it poses an unacceptable risk to public health because...

“A third of British women risk doing severe harm to their unborn babies by binge drinking during pregnancy,” the Mail Online reports. While a concerning statistic, the evidence behind the headline is perhaps not as clear-cut as the Mail would lead its...

Highly visible changes in scholarly publishing over the last twenty years include the emergence of preprint servers such as ArXiv, and the rapid growth of Open Access publishing. However, other equally important changes, many linked to the rise of Open...

Musicians in solo acts are more likely to die than their peers in bands, a new study reports. They found that solo performers (such as Amy Winehouse), were around twice as likely to die early as those in a band (like the Rolling Stones), irrespective...

Over the course of my career, the question of whether  or not women should take antidepressants while pregnant has been a recurring question.  The point-counterpoint seems to depend on whether you are a psychiatrist treating women with severe forms of...