UK medicines regulator says information on boxes of montelukast will alert users to risk of mood and behaviour changesMore than 500 adverse neuropsychiatric reactions have been reported in children under the age of nine involving an asthma drug which is to get new warnings over its risks.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)...

Campaigners are calling for public inquiry into high number of patient fatalities over a decade at crisis-hit serviceMore than 30 patients died after risks were not acted on in the decade following a controversial service redesign at a crisis-hit NHS mental health trust, according to an analysis by campaigners.The report by the Campaign to Save Mental...

What was once a niche product is being embraced by more people. We examine the options at a range of pricesThey are de rigueur in Scandinavian and Nordic countries, with as many as one for every household in Finland, where the old saying goes: “First build the sauna, then the house”, and it appears Britons are now following suit. Google UK searches...

I get advice about my age on social media (not all of it friendly), but I’m sanguine about life without youthful anxietiesHow old is old? That depends on how old you are, for as you age you will nudge that number upwards. A recent German study asked people over the age of 40 that same question eight times over a period of 25 years, and it found “old”...

National Pharmacy Association says some family doctors refusing to refer patients with minor ailments GPs have been accused of scuppering Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan to cut the time it takes to see them by refusing to refer patients with minor ailments to a pharmacist instead.Pharmacists claim many GPs in England are not sending patients to them to...

Readers on the government’s plans to move away from financial support for those with mental health conditions given through personal independence paymentPerhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the government has continued to attack “mental health culture” (Mentally ill people being used as ‘political football’, campaigners say, 29 April). The publication...