Some antidepressants may actually do more harm than good to depressed children, according to an analysis of unpublished data that pharmaceutical companies may have been hiding from the public.
The study, published in the April issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, reviewed both published data and unpublished data on the effects of antidepressants and […]

Adult and children on antidepressants should be closely monitored for an increase in depression or the emergence of suicidal thoughts, the Food and Drug Administration said today in a Public Health Advisory.
FDA asked drug makers today to change the labels of 10 antidepressants to include stronger warnings stating that patients taking the drugs can […]

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT-GlaxoSmithKline plans to meet this week with officials from the Department of Children and Families, after the state stopped prescribing Paxil to children in its care who suffer from depression.
DCF banned Paxil after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned against prescribing the popular anti-depressant to young people for major depression. The FDA […]

The Food and Drug Administration warned against prescribing the popular anti-depressant Paxil to children for major depression because the adult drug may increase the risk of suicide or suicide thinking in this age group. The FDA’s warning came a week after British regulators warned about Paxil’s possible risk to children.
The FDA said through a statement […]

British drug regulators warned doctors against prescribing GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil to children, after new research released by an independent group of scientists showed an increase in the risk of suicide or suicidal thinking among younger patients when Paxil was prescribed.
“There is an increase in the rate of self-harm and potentially suicidal behavior in this age […]

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed what psychiatrists have assumed - that patients who recovered from depression with drug treatment were less likely to avoid recurrences if they took the drug for two years instead of tapering off after a few months.
The subjects of the study had previously suffered […]

Los Angeles–A federal judge cleared the way Thursday for GlaxoSmithKline the makers of Paxil, an anti-depressant drug, to include language in television ads that the drug is non-habit forming.
In August, U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer banned the language in a ruling growing out of a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of 35 patients who claimed […]