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Antidepressants linked to risk of brain bleeds: study

People using a common class of antidepressants may have slightly increased odds of suffering bleeding in the brain— though the risk is still very small, according to a Canadian study looking at more than 500,000 people.

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s captivating essay on depression

A year since his best-selling Emperor of Maladies, that decoded cancer for us in all its complexity, Mukherjee is back examining another common illness through his unique and piercing perspective: depression.