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 ...

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I dread public speaking. I get nervous on first dates. I hate to be called on in classes or meetings. In short, I’m shy. Not debilitatingly so. I’m guessing many of you are no different. I’ve often ...

The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers in Canada reported on Monday. Women who took ...

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 ...

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has sent a warning letter to doctors, advising that the antidepressant Paxil may be linked to a slightly higher risk of birth defects in babies exposed to the drug during the ...

JAKE Steinberg had bitten his nails since childhood, but when a doctor noticed the California college student’s antsy habit, he prescribed a medication to stop it: Paxil. “It was a terrible mistake,” ...

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The study that paved the way for prescribing the antidepressant Paxil to millions of adolescents was seriously flawed, marked by what appear to be attempts to play down harms such as an increase in ...

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s $750 million settlement with the Department of Justice-- which includes a $96 million whistleblowing prize for former GSK quality assurance chief Cheryl D. Eckard -- is so much ...