Parents Wary of Antidepressants for Kids
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Alarmed at a recommendation that antidepressants for children carry a strict new warning label, some parents are not letting their kids take the drugs as part of a clinical trial for young people who have attempted suicide.
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For years, medical experts and desperate parents with teens suffering from depression have argued over the risks of prescribing antidepressants to minors, 520,000 of whom attempt suicide each year.
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Soaring numbers of children in the UK are being prescribed anti-depressants and other mind-altering drugs, research has revealed. No antidepressants are licensed for use in children under 16, but doctors can
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The fatal shooting last month of a Galveston doctor by his 10-year-old son, who was taking Prozac, is fueling ongoing concerns about the use of antidepressants by pediatric patients.
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Doctors are prescribing more antidepressants for children and adolescents although there is little evidence about their safety or efficacy in youngsters, researchers said on Thursday.
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Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, agency advisers said Tuesday.
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A Food and Drug Administration epidemiologist who triggered a closer look at suicidal behavior among children taking antidepressants cited independent experts at hearings Monday who he said support his findings.    In addition to seeing increases in suicidal thoughts among children receiving all the antidepressants he studied, Dr...
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WASHINGTON -- Now that the Food and Drug Administration is considering suicide warnings on antidepressants for children, the agency is checking whether the same precaution might be needed for adults.
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Doctors said that they would restrict the use of antidepressants for children in the wake of a decision that the medicines should contain severe warnings about suicide risks.
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PREGNANT women who take the anti-depressant Prozac may increase the risk of their children having mental problems. Scientists found that young mice given the drug grow up anxious and depressed.
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The discovery that antidepressants  may increase suicidal tendencies in children  has prompted some  lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to  financial incentives given to drug makers for pediatric  research.
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Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning - in a black box on the label - that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, the government's scientific advisers decided Tuesday.    It's a rare risk, and therefore families need detailed information on how to balance that concern with the need to treat depression, which itself can lead to suicide, cautioned advisers to the Food and Drug Administration...
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Because some antidepressant drugs have been shown to lead to suicidal thoughts among children and teens, the FDA decrees that all manufacturers must carry a warning on their labels.
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Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning &#151; in a black box on the label &#151; that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, the government's scientific advisers decided Tuesday.
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Rising numbers of children are being prescribed antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs, research revealed. No pills are licensed for use by people under 16 years of age, but doctors can issue them where they feel it&#39;s clinically appropriate.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday ordered that all antidepressants carry "black box" warnings that they "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children who take them.    Patients and their parents will be given medication guides that include the warning with each new prescription or refill...
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In light of new recommendations that the US Food and Drug Administration consider stern warnings about a possible link between antidepressants and suicidal thoughts among children, agency officials are re-evaluating whether adults on these medications can