U.S. Youth Antidepressant Use Drops in 2004 - Report
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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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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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Warnings from federal regulators four years ago that antidepressants were increasing the risk of suicidal behavior among young people led to a precipitous drop in the use of the drugs. Now a new study has found that the drop coincides with an unprecedented increase in the number of suicides among...
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Children throughout the world are increasingly prescribed antidepressants and other drugs designed to calm or stimulate their brains, according to two studies published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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Taking antidepressants appears to raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in adults younger than 25, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in an analysis released on Tuesday.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Antidepressant drugmakers such as Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Wyeth will have to disclose trial results suggesting a higher risk of suicide among children and teenagers taking the pills, US regulators said.
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NEW YORK  - Treating people with depression -- by means of either medications or psychotherapy -- leads to a drop in suicide attempts, according to a new report.
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The use of antidepressant drugs  during pregnancy does not appear to have a significant effect  on the behavior of the child, Canadian and Korean researchers  report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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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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The use of some antidepressant drugs appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in some children and teen-agers, a US advisory panel concluded on Tuesday.
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It&#39;s not been a good year for the Food and Drug Administration â-ith a controversy over the use of antidepressants by children and adolescents, the withdrawal
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It was Britain's warning to physicians last year not to treat depression in young people with six antidepressant drugs that set off an international debate and gave impetus to U.S. health authorities who made ...
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The steep decline among children is a dramatic reversal of a decade-long trend of soaring prescription rates for antidepressants.
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The use of some antidepressants appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel ruled on Tuesday.
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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.    Pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions found that the number of children taking antidepressants fell 18 percent in the first quarter and an additional 5 percent in the second quarter...
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Antidepressants on sale in the US will carry a stark new warning about suicide risks posed to young people.
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Using the anti-depressant Prozac at an early age could lead to emotional problems later in life, US scientists have told the journal Science.