Antidepressant drugs like Paxil, Zoloft and Prozac may cause some children and adolescents to have suicidal thoughts and actions, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said on Monday.
“I think that we now all believe that there is an increase in suicidal thinking and action that is consistent across all the drugs,’ Dr. Robert Temple, director […]

Some antidepressants may actually do more harm than good to depressed children, according to an analysis of unpublished data that pharmaceutical companies may have been hiding from the public.
The study, published in the April issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, reviewed both published data and unpublished data on the effects of antidepressants and […]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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Zoloft, an antidepressant drug made by Pfizer, for acute and long-term treatment of social anxiety disorder, said the company.
In clinical trials involving more than 600 patients, Zoloft proved effective in reducing the anxiety, fear and avoidance behaviors experienced by people with social anxiety disorder, also known as a […]

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 […]

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the use of Zoloft, an antidepressant drug made by Pfizer, for post-traumatic stress. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric condition that affects millions of people who experience car accidents, sexual assaults, and other horrifying incidents. It is estimated that about 7 percent of Americans will suffer […]