Diabetic patients who consume GlaxoSmithKline’ Avandia to keep their sugar levels at bay may now have to shift to some substitute drug as the most commonly used diabetes drugs Avandia may in fact double the risk of heart failure, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
The findings, […]
The use of depression medication among children in the UK has quadrupled in the last ten years with over 600,000 prescriptions being written out for the under-16s suffering mental health problems in the last year.
GPs have been accused of handing out medication too freely because youngsters may get used to taking medication for their depression […]
Angie Hamm is used to the eye rolling and the incredulous looks when people find out about her dog.
“What? Your dog is on Prozac?”
Yes, he is.
“And,” Angie says, “when he’s having a really bad day, he gets Valium, too.”
The Food and Drug Administration approved psychotropic drugs for dogs in 1999. In the years since then, […]
Down Came the Rain, penned remarkably well by well known actress Brooke Shields, describes her personal journey through postpartum depression. Following the birth of her daughter, Rowan, rain came pouring down, and Shields was in grave danger of being swept away emotionally, by the swelling tide of postpartum depression. In sobering fashion, Shields […]
Eli Lilly and Co used misleading claims to promote a version of Prozac for dogs to treat separation anxiety, neglecting to mention that dogs in a trial also got behaviour training, U.S. regulators said.
The Food and Drug Administration said in a letter to Lilly unit Elanco Animal Health, released Monday, that statements on a company […]
Suicide attempts dropped among people with depression soon after they started treatment, either with antidepressant drugs or psychotherapy, a study of more than 109,000 patients shows.
The study results come after a controversial 2004 recommendation on antidepressant labeling from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That move slapped a strong “black box” warning on the […]
A week after Chicago’s Katharine Pflaum adopted a temperamental calico cat named Stella, she knew she had a serious problem on her hands. Stella wasn’t just warlike during the day; she also pounced on Pflaum in the middle of the night.
But Pflaum didn’t want to give up on the cat, who already had been abandoned […]