Anxiety feels highly unpleasant. Anxious feelings can torment you. They can feel as unbearable as physical pain. Drug companies recommend anti-anxiety pills. TV ads promulgate pills. Many physicians ...

SSRIs are often the first choice for treating depression and various anxiety disorders. Medications for anxiety and depression work by boosting neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, ...

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Northeastern University professor Raymond Booth first learned about propranolol, a drug developed to treat high blood pressure, in pharmacy school around 1978. In graduate school, he noticed ...

After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more ...