Browsing: SSRI antidepressants

By Kim Witczak WoodyMatters On February 12, a joint meeting of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and Drug Safety…

Deaths related to the adverse events of medical treatments fell between 1990 and 2016. Researchers examined the causes of death…

Bob, a 30-year-old real estate agent, had been suffering from insomnia for 6 months before he came to see me.…

SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), the most popular kind of antidepressants prescribed, when taken by pregnant women, increase the chance…

The anesthetic ketamine, used in both humans and animals, is perhaps best known as an illegal party drug due to…

Antidepressant Birth Defect Risk – Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control found that women taking paroxetine (Paxil) during their…

In Part 6 of our 7-part Drugs in Pregnancy series, we tackle the difficult issue of antidepressants during pregnancy. As…