Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The commonly prescribed antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) is unsafe for teens, according to a new paper that reanalyzed data from ...

The antidepressant Paxil is not as safe and effective in teens as the drug's manufacturer has claimed, according to the authors of a new study who re-evaluated original data from clinical trials.

Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications too often get a bad rap—and frankly, that's a damn shame because they offer help to literally millions of people in the U.S. alone (12.7 percent of ...

Sara Bostock once sent me a picture of her and her daughter Cecily in happier times, and it’s a happy shot indeed: mother and daughter, 40-something and 20-something, outdoors in the sun, looking ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The drug never should have been prescribed in teens to treat depression, as it was through the first decade of the 2000s, ...

After more than a decade of controversy surrounding a 2001 clinical trial led by a Brown professor on the effects of the antidepressant Paxil, a reanalysis of the original data claims the drug is no ...

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