Fewer Kids Using Antidepressants, Study Finds
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On the heels of reports since last May that have linked antidepressant medications to an increased risk of suicide among young users, pediatric prescriptions for the drugs have fallen 18 percent, new data finds.
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Prozac, the only antidepressant certified as safe for children, may make kids more suicidal, according to evidence out Monday. A large new study added to previous
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Talk therapy can allay thoughts of  suicide among seriously depressed teenagers who are taking an  antidepressant drug and the combination of therapies is more  effective than the drugs alone, a study said on Tuesday.
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Description: A Food and Drug Administration study seems to confirm suspicions that antidepressant drugs may increase the risk of suicidal behavior in children and teens.
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Talk therapy can allay thoughts of suicide among seriously depressed teenagers who are taking an antidepressant drug and the combination of therapies is more effective than the drugs alone, a study said on Tuesday.
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Warnings that antidepressants might increase the risk of suicidal behavior in youth curbed rapid growth of these drugs but did not eliminate access to them among young people as some had feared, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Aug. 17, 2004 -- Treating depressed teenagers with a combination of antidepressants and psychotherapy is better than either treatment approach alone, according to a major new study.
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NEW YORK - The number of children taking antidepressants has dropped dramatically since the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) cautioned that the drugs can provoke suicidal behavior, according to a study.
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NEW YORK  - A commonly used antidepressant  appears to help kids with social anxiety disorder, which causes  them to become extremely distressed by ordinary social  situations, new research shows.
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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 say.
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Highly publicized government warnings  that antidepressants could cause suicidal thoughts in  adolescents may have scared off parents and doctors alike,  meaning fewer depressed children are being diagnosed, U.S.  psychiatrists say.
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Media & professional: The number of prescriptions for antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs given to children under 16 has more than quadrupled in the last decade.
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NEW YORK  - Within 2 years after the October 2003 FDA public health advisory about the risk of suicide in children taking a type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), significant reductions in rates of diagnosis and antidepressant treatment of childhood depression occurred, researchers report.
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Suicides among children and young adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, a year when concerns about the dangers of antidepressants triggering suicides were widely publicized, federal researchers reported on Thursday.
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Children taking antidepressant drugs may be at increased risk for suicidal behavior and thinking, and the government should require a "black box" warning label on the medications, an expert panel concluded Tuesday.
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Some local doctors are not thrilled with a national study on anti-depression. The Food and Drug Administration says drugs, like Prozac and Paxil, can increase the chances of suicide among children and teens.
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Children throughout the world are increasingly prescribed antidepressants and other drugs designed to calm or stimulate their brains, according to a new study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.