Antidepressant medication may be linked to suicide attempts and death in very depressed children and adolescents.
There has been debate in recent years over whether antidepressants, particularly SSRIs (specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors), are linked to an increased risk of suicide. Research has suggested that the risk may be greater among children and teens on antidepressants. So […]
A 16-year-old girl found dead in Mueller Park Canyon took seven times the lethal amount of an antidepressant, police said. The toxicology reports indicate Samantha Mikesell took imipramine, which police said was the prescription medicine Walter Andrew White had been taking.
“It looks like she took it on her own, and he supplied it,” Bountiful Police […]
A single intravenous infusion of a drug known as ketamine, which is a general anesthetic agent, may relieve symptoms of depression within two hours and remain effective for up to one week, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The discovery of antidepressant medications has […]
A Toronto man who killed his epileptic son in a London hotel room in July 2004 has broken a two-year silence in hopes he can help families afflicted by mental illness avoid similar tragedies.
David Carmichael told the London Free Press from the Brockville Psychiatric Hospital that he is haunted by memories of the night he […]
GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday agreed to fork over more than $70 million to settle lawsuits alleging that the London drugmaker overcharged patients, health plans and insurers for pharmaceuticals.
GSK officials said in a written statement Thursday that the agreement settles litigation filed by a individuals, health plans and the states of Arizona, California, Connecticut, New York, Nevada […]
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) faces a lawsuit alleging an infant was born with a heart defect because his mother took Paxil during the first trimester of her pregnancy.
The law firms, Robert Kwok & Associates LLP and Clark Depew & Tracey LLP, are seeking other parents whose children may have developed heart defects after being exposed […]