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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, [...]