Us pharmaceutical companies target consumers direct - US drug companies have decided to take their wares directly to the people. ...

That's nice: well it is for the pharmaceutical companies, at any rate - NICE isn t supposed to be not to pharmaceutical companies at least NICE which stands for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the t...

Prozac - Fluoxetine under the brand name Prozac was introduced by Eli Lilly in 1987 as a safer kind of antidepressant. Experience, however, suggests that far...

Prozac no better than the older antidepressants - The new breed of antidepressants, such as Prozac, is no better at treating depression than older drugs, researchers have found. ...

Antidepressants: - Now they face the typographical device - When a drug is dangerous - it might be known to kill or seriously injure - the regulators act quickly and decisively. And they don't pull their punch...

Antidepressant linked with withdrawal symptoms - For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit takin...

Social audit's charles medawar, the uk's drugs watchdog, pieces together new evidence demonstrating that the new, so-called safer antidepressants like prozac could be habit-forming. - Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause de...

Children are the new target for drugs - Children may soon be targeted by prescription drugs designed specifically for them—and, for once, the move hasn’t come directly from the pharmaceutica...