A common antibiotic may help lower the risk of some young people developing schizophrenia, a new study suggests.
Teenagers undergoing mental health treatment who were prescribed the antibiotic doxycycline were 30 per cent to 35 per cent less likely to develop schizophrenia in adulthood compared with teenagers who were treated with other antibiotics, according to the study, which was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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