Common acne medication could reduce schizophrenia risk
Nov 14, 2025•8 min
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Episode description
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/s
- Professor Ian Kelleher, child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh
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