What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe Committee on Safety of Medicines may consider limiting the use of the older and potentially more toxic tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, unless GPs reduce the number of prescrip ...
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: They're great for two-year-olds
It's got to be worth a gamble ...
In order to understand why depression happens, it's necessary to understand a little about how the brain works. Neurotransmitters are natural substances that transmit messages between nerve cells ...
SEROXAT: the drug the BBC dares name
The antidepressant drug paroxetine (brand name Seroxat), along with other so called SSRIs (selective serotonin re uptake inhibitors), is associated with extrapyramidal reactions (the part of the ...
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Yes, there is a safer and better way
My son, whose school fees have landed us in a financial crisis, was prescribed Prozac by his boarding school GP. He is 18 and about to do his A levels in June.
Acute dystonia, a form of muscle paralysis which can leave an individual in any number of sustained abnormal postures, is a common but overlooked side effect of antipsychotic and other drugs, acc ...
It is with great relief that we can report on the speed and efficiency of our drugs watchdogs, which act to protect us. In the UK this week, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHPRA) has pronounced that the antidepressant...
