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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - According to a new look at past antidepressant trials, up to a fifth of patients on Cymbalta and similar medications may actually do worse than those given drug-free placebo pills.Researchers found that patients' symptoms over the first ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Light therapy may improve symptoms in pregnant women with depression, suggests a new study of 27 women in Switzerland.While the study was small, the findings are promising for doctors who have been hesitant to treat with antidepressants ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take certain drugs for depression or anxiety may have heightened risks of preterm delivery or other birth complications, according to a new study.Researchers found that among nearly 3,000 women who gave birth in Washington ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Antidepressants fail to help about half of the people who take them, and a study in mice may help explain why.Most antidepressants -- including the commonly used Prozac and Zoloft -- work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - US adults being treated for mental illness are more likely to be prescribed two or more drugs today than a decade ago.Although little is known about whether they work or what the long-term side effects might be, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who take an antidepressant seem to have a small but noteworthy increased risk of stroke and death compared to older women not on an antidepressant medication, a new study shows.But given that depression itself is ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Antidepressants may go well beyond just easing the symptoms of depression; they may also make people less neurotic, U.S. researchers said Monday.The study of people who took GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, known generically as paroxetine, suggests the drug may treat factors ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies whose mothers used antidepressants during pregnancy visit the doctor more often and have higher risks of certain health problems than other children their age, a new study suggests.The study looked at the medical records of nearly ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you take antidepressants such as fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) early in your pregnancy, you may be doubling the risk that your newborn will be born with a heart defect, according to a new study.However, the vast ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are depressed during pregnancy can take hope that antidepressants and/or " "Depression in pregnant women often goes unrecognized and untreated in part because of concerns about the safety of treating women during pregnancy," lead author ...
