What Doctors Don't Tell YouVirtually no drug is licensed for use by the young, so a warning from a UK drugs watchdog about the antidepressant Seroxat (paroxetine) is perplexing.
The 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 ...
When a drug is dangerous - it might be known to kill or seriously injure - the regulators act quickly and decisively. And they don't pull their punches either. Their most deadly weapon is - a typographical device. And make no mistake, they're not...
Despite the advent of new antidepressant drugs such as the SSRIs, psychiatrists are still prescribing the older tricyclic drugs, the best known of which are amitriptyline and imipramine.
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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: 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 ...
