Posts Tagged 'antidepressant'

An article in The Vancouver Sun examines the controversy surrounding the use of antidepressants by pregnant women.

The report quotes the director of a Canadian program that provides information and research about medical hazards for pregnant women as saying that quitting medication can be risky for clinically depressed patients who are pregnant. That can lead to hospitalization, suicide attempts, postpartum depression and the inability to care for oneself.

But the report also ...

A study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge finds that critically ill patients were more likely to die if they were taking commonly prescribed antidepressants before being admitted to the intensive care unit.

Specifically, the research examined the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).

According to a report on the study ...

A report from station KAIT out of Arkansas explores the question of whether antidepressants cause suicidal thoughts in children.

According to the report, the assertion that there’s a link between antidepressant use and suicidal thoughts in children is controversial. But it said some studies have suggested such a link exists.

A number of studies have indicated that antidepressants categorized as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, widely hailed as wonder drugs in the 1990s, ...

An article in Canadian news magazine Maclean’s spotlights the fact that much medical and scientific research excludes female test subjects, leaving a sizable and potentially dangerous gap in clinical knowledge as to how a given medication or treatment may affect women.

The article mentions that a number of conditions, such as heart disease, appear to affect men and women differently in terms of frequency, symptoms or both. Yet men make up ...

In an interview with Ohio newspaper The Plain Dealer, psychologist Eric Maisel, author of “Rethinking Depression,” questions whether antidepressants are overprescribed.

Maisel points out that all diagnoses of depression are based on self-reporting. He questions whether much of what many medical providers now diagnose as depression requiring medication is, in fact, a natural reaction to some of life’s inevitable disappointments and losses.

In an introduction to the interview, Plain Dealer medical writer ...

Although published studies say a given treatment is effective, a host of unpublished studies may have reached precisely the opposite conclusion, according to Claire McCarthy, M.D., a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston.

In a recent blog entry for the Huffington Post, McCarthy warns of researchers’ tendency to publish only studies showing that a treatment is effective.

As an example of the distorted perceptions the situation can cause, McCarthy mentions a recent article ...