Antidepressants safe for children and adolescents

By Michael Mangis on January 2, 2008 8:56 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Antidepressants are safe and effective for treating anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and major depressive disorder in children and adolescents, according to a meta-analysis of 27 major studies. The findings, published by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), call into question the controversial "black box" warnings placed on the drugs by the Food and Drug Administration, which say that antidepressant medications pose a small but significantly increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior for children and adolescents.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/uops-asf041207.php#

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