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Article: Antidepressant drugs banned for children.(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has told doctors not to prescribe all but one (Prozac) of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants to children. This follows evidence from clinical trials carried out in the late 1990s, that had subsequently been suppressed, that they can cause children to become suicidal. Trials that did not produce favourable results were neither published nor sent to the FDA (US) or the MHRA. In fact trials into one of the ...