News tagged with antidepressant medication
Effects of stress on brain cells offer clues to new anti-depressant drugs
Research from King's College London reveals the detailed mechanism behind how stress hormones reduce the number of new brain cells - a process considered to be linked to depression. The researchers identified a key protein ...
Neuroscience
May 06, 2013 |
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Anti-depressant link to Clostridium difficile infection
Certain types of anti-depressants have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this link should improv ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 06, 2013 |
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Unethical advertising at launch of antidepressants
The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under ...
Health
May 02, 2013 |
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Glutamate neurotransmission system may be involved with depression risk
Researchers using a new approach to identifying genes associated with depression have found that variants in a group of genes involved in transmission of signals by the neurotransmitter glutamate appear to increase the risk ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2012 |
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Poor 'Health literacy' keeps patients from taking meds
(HealthDay)—Adult diabetes patients who don't understand basic health information are less likely to continue taking newly prescribed antidepressants, a new study finds.
Medications
Mar 27, 2013 |
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Biomarkers for antidepressant treatment response
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) have identified new biomarkers for antidepressant treatment response, an important step towards developing personalised ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 20, 2012 |
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Study clarifies antidepressant contribution to arrhythmia risk
A 2011 warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the popular antidepressant citalopram (Celexa) left many patients and physicians with more questions than answers. Now an analysis of the medical records of ...
Medications
Jan 29, 2013 |
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Controlling depression is associated with improved health for heart-failure patients
(Medical Xpress)—Controlling depression in patients with heart failure can improve health status, social functioning and quality of life, according to a new study by psychiatrists and cardiologists at the UC Davis and Duke ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 31, 2012 |
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Record 4.02 billion prescriptions in United States in 2011
People in the United States took more prescription drugs than ever last year, with the number of prescriptions increasing from 3.99 billion (with a cost of $308.6 billion) in 2010 to 4.02 billion (with a cost of $319.9 billion) ...
Medications
Sep 12, 2012 |
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Does the brain 'remember' antidepressants?
Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) often undergo multiple courses of antidepressant treatment during their lives. This is because the disorder can recur despite treatment and because finding the right medication ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Opioids involved in most medical overdose deaths
(HealthDay)—Opioid analgesics are involved in the majority of pharmaceutical-related overdose deaths, frequently involving drugs prescribed for mental health conditions, according to a research letter published ...
Medications
Feb 21, 2013 |
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You're not so anonymous: Medical data sold to analytics firms might be used to track identities
When you visit a pharmacy to pick up antidepressants, cholesterol medication, or birth control pills, you might expect a certain measure of privacy. In reality, prescription information is routinely sold to ...
Other
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Drugs ease depression in Parkinson's patients without worsening other symptoms
Today's anti-depressant medications can ease depression in Parkinson's patients without worsening other symptoms of the disease, according to a study published online in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Exposure to COI policies during residency reduces rate of brand antidepressant prescriptions
Psychiatrists who are exposed to conflict-of-interest (COI) policies during their residency are less likely to prescribe brand-name antidepressants after graduation than those who trained in residency programs without such ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Treating vitamin D deficiency may improve depression
Women with moderate to severe depression had substantial improvement in their symptoms of depression after they received treatment for their vitamin D deficiency, a new study finds. The case report series to be presented ...
Health
Jun 25, 2012 |
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