General

Polypharmacy : A Brief Introduction

Let me begin with a single phrase used by Dr. Steven Stahl for polypharmacy – A dirty little secret. He further elaborated “polypharmacy seems to be something everybody does and nobody admits” so there must be something that prevents people to admit it. By that logic, I would like to further explore what makes it…

Mental Health

Mental Health of Children

Child as per Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is a person younger than 18 years, unless the majority (i.e., the legal threshold of adulthood) is attained at a younger age in a particular country. Adolescence is historically defined by WHO as the period between ages 10 and 19 years. Almost 90% of…