Common acne medication could reduce schizophrenia risk

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Recorded14 Nov 2025

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A drug used to treat acne and to prevent malaria, doxycycline, could reduce the risk adolescents developing schizophrenia.The association was seen in a study looking at more than 50,000 adolescents who attended psychiatric services in Finland.The authors have called it a "tentative but exciting possibility" – but caution more research is needed.Guest/sProfessor Ian Kelleher, child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of EdinburghReferencesDoxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial

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