Antidepressant labels should warn young adults aged 18 to 24 that the drugs may increase their risk of suicide, the Food and Drug Administration said.
The current warning states adolescents and children may suffer suicidal thoughts while...
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Tranylcypromine, a drug for treating depression finally has got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA).
This is the sulfate tablet of 10mg. The drug is the nonspecific version of GlaxoSmithKline's parnate. Par Pharmaceutical...
A new pocket-watch-sized device that is also called as 'a pacemaker for the brain' is developed to provide better treatment to the patients of depression. FDA has been approved it eight months before and since then more than 550 Americans have...
Bipolar disorder or manic depression patients, most of the times, find medications that simply do not work. They are treatment-resistant. The vagus nerve stimulator has proved as a better treatment device for maniac depression.
A patient, Lauri...
Wellbutrin XL, a new drug to treat seasonal affective depression (SAD), has got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Seasonal affective depression usually strikes in winters. It lasts for six months and shows the symptoms like loss of...
If no treatment is helpful to fight depression, a brain implant may help. But it can take long duration to show the benefits of the implant. According to the researchers of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the vagus nerve...
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