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SSRI Antidepressants Birth Defects
Health Canada Advises of Potential Adverse Effects of SSRIs And Other Anti-Depressants On Newborns
Aug 9, 2004
| Health Canada
Health Canada is advising Canadians that newborns may be adversely affected when pregnant women take Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)...
Pregnant Women Who Take Anti-Depressants May Put Babies At Risk
Aug 9, 2004
| Canadian Press
Women who take some anti-depressant drugs during late pregnancy may be putting their babies at risk, Health Canada is warning. The department issued...
Depression Drugs Linked To Suicides In Teens
Aug 9, 2004
| Ottawa Citizen
At least five teenagers in Canada have died, four by suicide, while being treated with the most widely prescribed antidepressants in Canada and at...
Suicide By Kids Sparks Hearing
Aug 5, 2004
| Modesto Bee
Doctors told Dominique Slater's parents that their teenage daughter might become nauseated or gain weight from pills prescribed to battle...
Lawmaker Seeks Clinical Trial Data
Aug 5, 2004
| www.indystar.com
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has asked drug makers including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. to turn over their clinical trial...
Probe Planned of FDA's Antidepressant, Suicide Review
May 2, 2004
| AP
A House committee says it will investigate whether the Food and Drug Administration fully disclosed the disagreement among its scientists about...
FDA Was Urged To Limit Kids' Antidepressants
Apr 16, 2004
| San Francisco Chronicle
A medical reviewer at the Food and Drug Administration recommended earlier this year that the agency adopt a tough "risk management strategy" urging...



