Tag Archives: Antidepressants
Are Antidepressants like Paxil Effective or Placebo?
Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by admin.
In the early 1990s, everyone was listening to Prozac - right up until they weren’t anymore. By the middle of that decade, the media had begun spotlighting disasters involving the life-changing wonder drug - cases of suicide, even mass murder, apparently spurred by Prozac and similar medications. And by 2005, the Food and Drug Administration [...]
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Antidepressant cools hot flashes in study
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by admin.
The antidepressant citalopram may help lessen the severity of menopausal hot flashes, at least in the short term, a new clinical trial suggests.
The findings, from a seven-week study of 254 women, add to evidence that certain antidepressants can offer relief from severe hot flashes.
Studies have found that some antidepressants in the class known as selective [...]
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Top US psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup
Posted on 28. Mar, 2010 by admin.
American psychiatrists need to break away from a “culture of influence” created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal.
Dr. Thomas Insel stops short of calling researchers corrupt or asking them to stop taking money from drug companies. But he [...]
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Antidepressants can help people with physical ills
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by admin.
Antidepressants such as Eli Lilly’s Prozac or GlaxoSmithKline’s Paxil can help depressed patients with physical illness, and doctors should consider them more often, researchers said on Wednesday.
While around 10 percent of patients with physical diseases are thought to suffer from depression, studies suggest doctors are less likely to prescribe antidepressants because they are not sure [...]
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Antidepressants may have risks after menopause
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Older women who take an antidepressant seem to have a small but noteworthy increased risk of stroke and death compared to older women not on an antidepressant medication, a new study shows.
But given that depression itself is a well-established risk factor for early death, heart disease and other ills, the study’s author told Reuters Health, [...]
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Antidepressants May Raise Women’s Stroke Risk
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Older women who take antidepressants may have a small but statistically significant increased risk of stroke and death compared to women not on the medications, a new study finds.
“But statistical significance can be different from clinical significance,” stressed Dr. Jordan W. Smoller, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and lead author of [...]
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Are antidepressants affecting your sex drive?
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Is your mood up - but your sex drive down - since you’ve been taking antidepressants? The problem could be caused by the medicine - or it could be due to the depression. Both can cause diminished sex drive (libido). It’s important to discuss the problem with your doctor. There are effective ways to treat [...]
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Japan Will Remain A Key Growth Market For Antidepressant Sales
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by admin.
With current blockbuster brands facing generic competition, Datamonitor forecasts the antidepressant market to decline at a compound annual growth rate of -2.0% (20082018). However, an antidepressant with a novel mechanism of action has huge commercial potential and the most promising candidate to date is Servier and Novartis’s melatonin agonist and serotonin antagonist Valdoxan (agomelatine).
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Antidepressants Usage in the USA Almost Doubled
Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by admin.
Antidepressant use among U.S. residents almost doubled between 1996 and 2005, along with a concurrent rise in the use of other psychotropic medications, a new report shows.
The increase seemed to span virtually all demographic groups.
“Over 10 percent of people over the age of 6 were receiving anti-depression medication. That strikes me as significant,” said study [...]
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Most Common Stress Relief Pills
Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by admin.
Everyone can feel depressed at some time or another and that’s just part of life. For some people, the stress builds into depression that consumes their lives and makes the person seek help. Some won’t go to a doctor for depression because many people still believe that depression isn’t something medical. The fact of the [...]