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Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...to be associated with reductions in the number of antidepressant medication prescriptions among children and adoles...ol of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., examined monthly antidepressant prescription data among patients age 2 to 17 years covered by the TennCare expanded Medicare program...

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...ncy with their doctors. Women, who are taking an antidepressant should not stop taking their medications if they d...re provider. It may be dangerous to stop taking an antidepressant suddenly. About 10 percent of pregnant women in the United States suffer from depression, some of ...

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...imuli received by the animal, such as a dose of an antidepressant drug, affect circuit operation. The researchers ...They also tested slices from rats treated with the antidepressant medications fluoxetine and imipramine. The team carried out the study using a standard rat model o...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...York City, says the real force behind skyrocketing antidepressant prescription rates is pharmaceutical marketing to ...sed. Incidentally, the "patients" who asked for an antidepressant were significantly more likely to get a prescription for one than patients who did not....

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...r it should be relatively easy to figure out which antidepressant is likely to work best. With hit-or-miss approach gone, doctors may have little time entertaining the nattily clad representatives of drug manufacturers. Scientists have identified genetic variations that affect specific neurotransmitter functions,...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

...d rate of bone loss in older men and women . The antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake ...sting for other factors affecting bone density and antidepressant use, including depression severity and calcium supplement use, bone mineral density at the hip decre...

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...rror, such as the pain medication Celebrex and the antidepressant Celexa, or the tranquilizer Zyprexa and the antihistamine Zyrtec. These medication errors are very painful for doctors, as well as the patients. Nobody wants to make a mistake, said Tatyana Shamliyan, lead review author and a research associate at ...

Antidepressents may Lower Bone Density in Older People

The class of antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake ...of fracture. SSRIs account for about 62 percent of antidepressant prescriptions in the United States, and are often prescribed to the elderly. Susan J. Diem, M.D., ...

Exercise Stimulates Production of New Brain Cells

...oposes a model to explain how exercise can have an antidepressant effect in mild to moderately severe depression. He... drug. What is interesting is that the effect of antidepressant therapy can be greatly strengthened by external environmental factors, she says. Previous studies ...

Depression Drugs Could Make Bones Fragile

...lder people and doctors often prescribe a class of antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Two new studies, which have appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association, have now found that older men and women taking SSRIs had mor...

New Braincells can Be Induced by Exercise

...oposes a model to explain how exercise can have an antidepressant effect in mild to moderately severe depression. He...cines. What is interesting is that the effect of antidepressant therapy can be greatly strengthened by external environmental factors, she says. Previous studies ...

Britney Claims She was 'forced' into Rehab

... was made worse because she had stopped taking the antidepressant Prozac. Spears' lawyers called Promises multiple times demanding evidence of any 'failed' substance tests but were told she had passed them all. t took several days for Promises to response, and only two reports were sent to Britney's rep, both sh...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

... people younger than 25 start treatment with newer antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake in...fter starting treatmentpatients who received their antidepressant prescription from a psychiatrist tended to be most likely to attempt suicide. Those who received i...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

...ministration (FDA) has proposed that makers of all antidepressant medications update the existing black box warning on their products' labeling to include warnings about increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, in young adults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment, generally the first one to two months. ...

Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression

...d that the different effects of anti-psychotic and antidepressant drugs on the two mutant strains "might provide clues to effective medications for these patient groups. "Indeed, these mice could represent a model system to explore novel treatment and preventative strategies for certain symptoms of major mental ...

Bipolar Spectrum Disorder may Be Under-recognized for Spectrum Disorder: Study

...e" for bipolar disorder, e.g., they were taking an antidepressant or other psychotropic medication in the absence of...as. "It is potentially dangerous because use of an antidepressant without the benefit of a mood stabilizer may actually worsen the condition." Merikangas and collea...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

...st Laboratories, which is now the most widely used antidepressant in the country even though there are cheaper alternatives, including generic versions of Prozac. "Prozac is just as good if not better, and yet we are migrating to the expensive drug instead of the generics," Dr. Sharfstein said. "I think it's the ...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

... cognitive behavioural therapy) is as effective as antidepressant treatment and its benefits last longer. Hypnotherapy has also been reported to be an effective intervention for IBS in small trials, although a recent review of hypnotherapy trials found insufficient evidence to recommend its widespread use and sug...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

... depression in type 2 diabetes, she said, and that antidepressant medications have been effective in treating depression in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Program ACTIVE is the researchers way of doing something about the situation. To meet the depression criterion for Program ACTIVE, patients must hav...

Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch

... Health Watch suggests that you continue taking an antidepressant if you already use one; depression is a serious illness that can have profound consequences. You may also want to talk to your doctor about getting a bone density test, and make sure you get adequate calcium....

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