The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a list of dozens of drugs for which it is conducting safety reviews after concerns over their side effects and potential complications have been raised.  Some of the drugs under scrutiny…

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,…

Although most commonly known as an effective antidepressant medication, fluoxetine, marketed under the brand name Prozac, was shown to be effective in slowing the progression of the relapsing remitting type of multiple sclerosis (MS), with fewer areas of inflammation occurring…

Anyone suffering through the agonies of depression may want to ask this question but may never muster up the initiative to do so. The answer may be the key to better treatment, especially when the big picture is examined.

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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.

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…