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Article: Antidepressant Found to Reduce Hot Flashes; Menopausal Women Battling Hot Flashes May Have New Weapon to Add to Their Arsenal: Paroxetine.
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- June 3, 2003
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, June 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins and 17 other institutions found that a slow-release form of the antidepression, antianxiety medication, sold under the brand name Paxil, reduced hot flashes in a group of menopausal women by up to 65 percent, or 3.3 flashes per day. Their work is published in the June 4 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Hot flashes traditionally have been treated with estrogen and progestin hormone supplements, which can reduce their frequency by 80 percent to 90 percent. But results of the Women's Health Initiative study - blaming the ...