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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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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 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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Drugs for Treating and Preventing Headaches
Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by admin.
In addition to the traditional headache medications, there are other medications - like antidepressants - that may be prescribed to reduce the severity and frequency of your headaches. These medications are used for prevention of tension headaches.
Generic Name
Brand Name
Possible Side Effects
Amytriptyline
Elavil
Fatigue, dry mouth, weight gain, constipation, drowsiness, and blurred vision. Older adults also may experience [...]
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Antidepressants Linked to Preterm Birth
Posted on 06. May, 2008 by admin.
Taking antidepressants in pregnancy may raise the risk of giving birth prematurely, researchers report.
But left untreated, depression may also increase the chance of preterm birth, says researcher Katherine Wisner, MD, professor of psychiatry, ob-gyn, and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Each pregnant woman has to work with her doctor to weigh the [...]