Weight can become the whole world in anorexia, with every gram lost and gained the subject of intense focus. But new research has found people with severe and treatment-resistant anorexia, which kills one in five sufferers, may fare better if their doctors stop trying to get them to gain weight.
The growing abuse of the commonly prescribed anxiety and insomnia drug alprazolam has led the peak body for drug regulation in Australia to more tightly restrict its prescription.