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SSRI Antidepressants Birth Defects
Child Antidepressants Must Have Warnings
Sep 14, 2004
| AP
Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning in a black box on the label that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in...
Antidepressants Need Stronger Warnings
Sep 14, 2004
| AP
Antidepressants such as Paxil and Prozac should come with strong warnings that they raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children...
Feds Warn on Children and Antidepressants
Sep 13, 2004
| AP
Tom Woodward's 17-year-old daughter Julie committed suicide by hanging herself. He blamed the antidepressant that the teen had been taking for seven...
Strong Warnings Expected On Antidepressants For Kids
Sep 8, 2004
| USA TODAY
Scientific advisers to the Food and Drug Administration next week are expected to recommend tougher warning labels or other restrictions on...
GSK Faces Anti-Depressant Lawsuit
Sep 6, 2004
| BBC
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is facing a US lawsuit alleging that it covered up negative research findings on its anti-depressant drug Paxil. The lawsuits...
FDA to Issue New Antidepressant Warnings
Aug 21, 2004
| AP
A new Food and Drug Administration analysis backs earlier suggestions of a link between at least some antidepressants used by children and suicidal...
FDA Alters Tack On Children and Antidepressants
Aug 21, 2004
| Washington Post
A Food and Drug Administration reexamination of data linking the pediatric use of some antidepressants to increased suicidal tendencies has once...
Depression Drugs Could Hurt Youths
Aug 21, 2004
| Philadelphia Inquirer
Children and adolescents being treated with certain antidepressants may be at increased risk of suicidal behavior, the Food and Drug Administration...
FDA Analysis Backs Antidepressant Concern
Aug 20, 2004
| AP
Federal health officials are preparing stronger warnings for some antidepressants used in children after new analyses back a possible link to...
Anti-Depressant Deaths Increase
Aug 20, 2004
| BBC
Between 1993 and 2002, 118 people in England and Wales taking venlafaxine (Efexor) died, 17.6 deaths per million prescriptions. Although the rate is...



