Drug + Therapy Combo Best for Teen Depression
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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  - Family therapy is more effective than traditional solo psychotherapy in helping teens with bulimia to abstain from binging and purging, a new study shows.
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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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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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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - Members of a U.S. advisory panel agreed with a Food and Drug Administration analysis that found antidepressant use raises the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in adults up to age 25, the panel's chairman said on Wednesday.
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The number of children and teenagers  taking antidepressants has fallen more than 20 percent this  year after U.S. warnings the medicines may increase suicidal  tendencies among youth, pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health  Solutions Inc. said on Tuesday.
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The best initial treatment for children and teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is cognitive-behavior therapy -- either alone or in combination with an antidepressant like Zoloft -- the results of a clinical trial show.
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Combining drugs with talk therapy works best in treating depressed adolescents, the first large study of its kind has found.
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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 said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Children and preadolescents who show signs of depression may turn to alcohol sooner rather than later, researchers report. All the more reason, they say, to catch and treat early-life depression.
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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Pairing Prozac with talk therapy works best to curb depression in children, according to research published today by Duke University scientists.
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Advisers to the U.S. government will  consider on Wednesday if taking antidepressant drugs may raise  the risk of suicidal behavior in some adults just as it appears  to in children and teens.
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WASHINGTON - 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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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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NEW YORK  - Cognitive behavior therapy and treatment with the antidepressant paroxetine, better known as Paxil or Seroxat, may both be effective short-term treatments for people with an excessive concern about illness, according to Dutch researchers.