Uppers cause toxic effects in the lungs - The lungs may be acting as a reservoir for antidepressants, causing toxic effects in the blood and brain, says a recent report from Japan. ...

New ms drug: suicide risk - A drug which could cause suicidal depression has been licenced by the American Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis. ...

Wonder slimming drug: It increases suicide risk - If you want to lose weight, don’t take the ‘wonder’ slimming drug Acomplia (rimonabant). Although it sailed through the approval process in Europe, a...

Antidepressants:may be limited - The Committee on Safety of Medicines may consider limiting the use of the older and potentially more toxic tricyclic antidepressants such as amitripty...

Suicidal patients: - Cognitive therapy works better than drugs - Suicidal patients are usually given drugs, and powerful ones at that. As most people who attempt suicide will do so again, drug therapy is intended t...

Sertraline - "Reason to be cheerful" chirrups the advertisement for sertraline, a heavyweight antidepressant for people who have suffered a major bout of depressio...

Depressed patients are overdosing by doctors’ prescription - Despite the advent of new antidepressant drugs such as the SSRIs, psychiatrists are still prescribing the older tricyclic drugs, the best known of whi...

New uppers: no improvement - The SSRI group of antidepressants - including fluoxetine and paroxetine - are no more effective and have no fewer side effects than the older tricycli...