After 20 years of these so-called miracle antidepressants, psychiatrists are shocked to discover that drug companies withheld information about the risks of this class of drugs - and with the tacit approval of the drug regulators. It all started so...
Readers with very long memories may recall that we got hold of a secret memo that revealed that the manufacturers of Prozac were concerned that too few children in the UK and the rest of Europe were being prescribed the drug. As a result it was...
Prozac the "happy drug" to ease depression could soon be called up to treat PMS sufferers as well. ...
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.
The antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) is often prescribed to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) but researchers have found it has absolutely no beneficial effect. ...
Prozac is the drug we like to give to our problem children, even if it does make them suicidal. Not that the drug authorities are taking the dangers lightly - the American drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has sprung into...
Serious reactions to Prozac (fluoxetine) have been reported by a group of Belgian doctors who took part in an informal questionnaire. Symptoms among patients ranged from a desire to die, great ner ...
Fluoxetine under the brand name Prozac was introduced by Eli Lilly in 1987 as a safer kind of antidepressant. Experience, however, suggests that far from being safer, Prozac may be highly dangero ...
Prozac, dubbed "the happy drug" by some zealots, may need a new sobriquet soon when word gets out that it could cause sexual dysfunction in up to 34 per cent of users. ...
Of late, the marketing men at several drug companies have been mounting an assault on Prozac, the antidepressant that seems to have become a lifeline for a nervous generation.
What Doctors Don't Tell You