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Depression, Anxiety and Insomnia Drugs Can Increase Risk of Car Accident

Depression, Anxiety and Insomnia Drugs Can Increase Risk of ...

A new study warns that medications used to treat anxiety, depression and insomnia may increase an individuals’ risk of a car accident. Because of the risk, researchers suggest physicians should consider advising patients not to driv [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Youth mental health team too free with drugs: audit

Youth mental health team too free with drugs: audit

AUSTRALIA'S largest youth mental health service prescribed medication to a majority of depressed 15 to 25-year-olds before they had received adequate counselling, despite international guidelines advising against the practice. An audi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Treating for Depression Can Prevent Teen Drug Abuse

Treating adolescents for depression can reduce their chances of abusing drugs later on, new research has found. Researchers at Duke University found that only 10 percent of 192 adolescents whose depression receded after 12 weeks of treatm [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Non-Drug Depression Treatment Rapidly and Significantly Impr...

New data released today at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS The [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Targacept depression drug disappoints again

Targacept depression drug disappoints again

A drug being developed by Targacept    and AstraZeneca to fight major depressive disorder failed to meet its goal in a second Phase 3 clinical trial, according to an announcement. The drug, known as TC-5214, performed well [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Stop-Smoking Drug Increases Risk Of Depression Or Suicide

Stop-Smoking Drug Increases Risk Of Depression Or Suicide

According to a new study, the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix) carries too many risks and should be a last-resort option for trying to quit the habit. Researchers said that varenicline showed a substantially increased risk of [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Targacept depression drug: high risk, high reward

Now it is poised to release data from a crucial trial of its depression drug, TC-5214, an event that, in the view of Leerink Swann analyst Joshua Schimmer, represents "one of the most important catalysts in biotech through year-end.& [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Anti-cancer hope raised by drugs for depression

COMMONLY used antidepressants could significantly reduce the risk of developing some types of cancer, the latest research suggests. A UK study has found that patients taking tricyclic antidepressants had a lower incidence of colorectal ca [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

What Are Augmenter Antidepressant Drugs?

  There are patients that need Augmenter antidepressants to make their medication more effective and of these, the most prescribed is Lithium and triiodothyronine. There are also other drugs that are neuroleptic or antipsychotic th [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

What Are Augmenter Antidepressant Drugs?

There are patients that need Augmenter antidepressants to make their medication more effective and of these, the most prescribed is Lithium and triiodothyronine. There are also other drugs that are neuroleptic or antipsychotic that can be [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression drug offers fewer side effects

Depression drug offers fewer side effects

Often people with depression go off their medication because they experience side effects such as weight gain or sexual dysfunction. But a study by two Australian scientists, published in British medical journal The Lancet, describes how [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression In Women Rampant; Feel Doctors Over-Prescribe Dru...

Sixty three percent of women with mental health issues feel that doctors too readily prescribe drugs to treat low level mental health problems. What are classified as "low level" mental health concerns, depression, stress and l [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Mindfulness therapy as good as drugs to treat depression

Mindfulness therapy as good as drugs to treat depression

A new study has stated that depression can be warded off with meditating daily and being mindful of life events that make you happy or sad in the same way as medication can. Study researcher Zindel V. Segal, of the Centre for Addiction a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression Drugs Linked to Heart Disease Risk: Study

Scientists have found that the older type of antidepressant drug, tricyclic, is linked to a 35 per cent increase in heart disease, the U.K. Daily Telegraph reported. A study, involving nearly 15,000 people in Scotland, was carried out by [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2010 | Comments : 0
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