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Driving, Antidepressants Can Be Dangerous Duo
19 August, 2008 – 6:17 | No Comment

In the past 10 years, the use of antidepressant drugs has tripled in the United States, where one in 10 women takes at least one antidepressant, according to National Center for Health Statistics’ 2004 Health United States report. A new,…

The Growing Evidence for Antidepressants as Anticancer Agents
2 June, 2008 – 19:16 | No Comment

Prostaglandins are infinitesimal, ephemeral lipid signalers in every cell in the body, and regulating every activity that takes place within a cell. As regulators of cellular activity, prostaglandins influence how cells are formed and what part of the body the…

Stimulating Immune Function With Lithium and Antidepressants
25 April, 2008 – 22:31 | 3 Comments

By Julian Lieb, M.D.

Stimulating immune function would transform the prevention, treatment, research and economics of infectious disorders, among them the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, resistant tuberculosis, a possible avian influenza pandemic and acts of bioterrorism.…

Medicine No Cure-All
19 February, 2008 – 18:05 | 2 Comments

Recent findings with patients receiving anti-depressant medication have not been entirely good. Although many patients report an increase in positive feelings and a renewed sense of hopefulness, others experience entirely new problems by taking the medicine.

Antidepressants Bring OCD Relief
19 February, 2008 – 17:48 | 2 Comments

After reviewing the results of various studies on the benefits of taking common antidepressant medications for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), researchers at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London, led by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Soomro, have concluded that patients are…

Are our kids being drugged?
29 January, 2008 – 8:48 | No Comment

David Healy, M.D., is a professor in the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, in Bangor, Wales, U.K.

Interviewer: In “The Creation of Psychopharmacology,” “The Antidepressant Era,” “Let Them Eat Prozac,” and your medical journal articles, you have suggested a…