FDA Weighs Antidepressant Risks for Kids
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A U.S. advisory panel began meeting Monday to debate whether certain antidepressants should come with stronger warnings about the chances of suicidal behavior in children and teens who take the drugs.
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing new warnings on the link between antidepressant use and suicidal tendencies in children, according to agency documents released Friday.
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Federal health officials are preparing stronger warnings for some anti--depressants prescribed for children after new analyses back a possible link to suicide.
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NEW YORK -- The number of children taking antidepressants has dropped dramatically since the Food and Drug Administration cautioned that the drugs can provoke suicidal behavior, according to a study.
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WASHINGTON -- The people who prescribe antidepressants for children may have to have better training to spot warning signs of suicide.
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Antidepressant use among children  declined 10 percent in 2004, after U.S. regulators warned the  drugs may be linked with increased suicide risk, pharmacy  benefits firm Medco Health Solutions said on Tuesday.
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Drug regulators should warn physicians and patients that antidepressants not only cause some children to become suicidal but most also fail to cure their depression.
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The American Psychiatric Association commends the Food and Drug Administration, and in particular its Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and its Pediatric Advisory Committee, for its public hearing on safe antidepressant use in pediatric patients
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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
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WASHINGTON - Antidepressants seem to spur suicidal behavior in some children and teenagers, government advisers ruled Tuesday before tackling a bigger question: How should that rare risk be balanced with the need to treat depression, which itself can lead to suicide?    Options range from making warning labels stronger to restricting those allowed to prescribe them. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration were reluctant to consider a more severe move, forbidding pediatric prescriptions...
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Thursday it "generally supports" an  advisory panel's conclusion this week that antidepressants  sometimes raise the risk of suicidal behavior in youth.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - Antidepressants such as Paxil and  Prozac should come with strong warnings that they raise the  risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children and  teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 20, 2004 - Federal health officials are preparing stronger warnings for some antidepressants used in children after new analyses back a possible link to suicide.
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Antidepressants such as Paxil and Prozac should come with strong warnings that they raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on 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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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration plans to update antidepressant labels to reflect  studies that suggest a link between the drugs and suicide in  youths, but remains cautious about the strength of such ties,   according to documents released on Friday.