ANTI-DEPRESSANT USE AMONG CHILDREN:ANDREW D. MOSHOLDER, M.D., M.P.H.

Congressional Testimony;  September 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ......FDA's review of pediatric use of antidepressant drugs, with particular attention to recent...submissions of pediatric data for antidepressant drugs, including pediatric data submitted...applies to pediatric use of other antidepressant drugs as well, I started to review FDA...

Depressive Disorder Needs an Evidence Base Commensurate With Its Public...

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......52:543-544) For several decades, antidepressant drugs have been routinely recommended...underrecognized.1,2 The prescription of antidepressant drugs has increased dramatically over...willingness to prescribe and to take antidepressant drugs has led to increased treatment of...

FDA warns of suicide and violent behaviour.

M2 Presswire;  July 6, 2005 ;     537 words ......psychiatric drugs, this time on the use of antidepressant drugs. Coming within days of a warning...Public Health Advisory on the use of antidepressant drugs. The Advisory, entitled, Suicidality...the safety and effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. A panel of nine psychiatrists ...

MORNINGLINE

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 8, 1997 ;     34 words ...Results Should antidepressant drugs be marketed for children? Yes: 15% No: 85% Question Should an individual's Social Security information be available on the Internet? (Page 1) Yes: (312) 408-3641 No: (312) 408-3642

Antidepressant Drugs May Protect Brain From Damage Due to Depression.

AScribe Medicine News Service;  July 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ......St. Louis found that the use of antidepressant drugs appears to protect a key brain structure...depressed patients who have taken antidepressant drugs. The study, led by Yvette I. Sheline...those episodes had been treated with antidepressant drugs. In addition to their brain scans...

SECOND OPINION

The Independent - London;  March 26, 1995 ;     510 words ......well aware that taken in overdose antidepressant drugs may cause death. Every few months...and on deaths from overdosage of antidepressant drugs. In Britain between 1987 and 1992...each year died from an overdose of antidepressant drugs, and 1,310 of the 1,606 deaths were...

ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe;  October 26, 1988 ;     70 words ...Q. What foods can interact dangerously with antidepressant drugs? -- E.I., Boston A. According to a spokesman for the US Food and Drug Administration, antidepressant drugs containing MAO inhibitors can have a serious effect after one has eaten...

Depression treatments may shift

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 8, 2006 ;     592 words ......in New York found evidence that antidepressant drugs significantly increased the risk...crucial because the current crop of antidepressant drugs worked slowly and weakly, if at...researchers found no link between the antidepressant drugs and suicidal behavior in depressed...

Suicide rates alarming

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 10, 2007 ;     349 words ......between suicide and youths using antidepressant drugs is not fully understood. Some researchers...for committing suicide and that antidepressant drugs are more likely to reduce suicide...black box" warning label applied to antidepressant drugs for use in people up to age 24 has...

Could Prozac muscle out mussels?(antidepressant drugs effect the...

Science News;  December 2, 2006 ;     275 words ...New research raises the possibility that antidepressant drugs may be depressing wild-mussel populations. Freshwater...larvae. Serotonin is the brain chemical boosted by antidepressant drugs such as fluoxetine, the active ingredient in...

Bupropion: new therapy for depression.

American Family Physician;  June 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......write most of the prescriptions for antidepressant drugs in the United States. [1] The tricyclic...Pharmacodynamics Bupropion is unique among antidepressant drugs. Its chemical structure is entirely...sympathetic agonist activity. [4] Antidepressant drugs are thought to exert their ...

Antidepressant drugs don't work - official study

Belfast Telegraph;  February 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically...applications for six of the best known antidepressant drugs, including Prozac, Seroxat - which...ago, there were allegations that antidepressant drugs were addictive and could trigger...

Antidepressants may increase suicide risk.(Digest)(Brief Article)

Chain Drug Review;  November 24, 2003 ;     73 words ......depressive disorders who are involved in clinical studies of antidepressant drugs. The agency took the action after a preliminary review of reports of eight antidepressant drugs, all studied under the pediatric exclusivity provision of...

Confusion reigns on kids' use of medications for depression.(Capitol Hill)

Drug Detection Report;  November 27, 2003 ;     213 words ......a double-take when they read its new advisory about the effects of antidepressant drugs on children. The FDA has warned doctors that prescribing antidepressant drugs for young people with major depressive disorders may lead to more...

Letter: Your Say - Pill-popping masks the problem.(Letters)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  March 11, 2008 ;     271 words ......BRIAN DANIELS THE headlines tell us that antidepressant drugs don't work. This may well have long-term ramifications...body tics. It's worth considering how so many antidepressant drugs have been prescribed. The cornerstone of psychiatry...