Ssri Patient Teaching
Treatment with antidepressants may help relieve the depression experienced by many patients with severe heart disease, a new study suggests. Researchers found that cardiac patients who took an antidepressant reduced their depression symptoms more than those who had weekly psychotherapy sessions.
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Treating Depression with SSRI Antidepressants
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) category of drugs have been on the scene for over 20 years since it was discovered that... Read more »
What if my SSRI stops working?
A fairly common scenario is that you're on a medication that works well initially, but after a while, it works less, and ultimately stops... Read more »
Teaching Type 2 Diabetes Patients Decreases Hemoglobin A1C levels
A Swedish study has shown that teaching type 2 diabetes patients about their disease results in greater decreases in the hemoglobin A1c... Read more »
Antidepressant Studies: Getting the Whole Picture
You can stop feeling like it's your fault that you haven't found an antidepressant that works. Not that you should have ever felt that way... Read more »
When Feeding Children, Teach Habits Not Nutrition
If you have a newborn, you have it easy. At least when it comes to food and eating issues. Babies are basically a blank slate. Yes,... Read more »
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SSRI antidepressants may lower adult suicide risk
A review of eight large-scale observational studies has found that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil... Read more »
Paxil, other SSRI antidepressants linked to fracture risk
People age 50 and older who take some antidepressants may be doubling their risk of fractures, a new study has found. Patients in a recent Canadian... Read more »
Colon Surgery Patients More Likely to Die at Teaching Hospital...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Medical School have found that colon surgery patients... Read more »
SSRI antidepressants may cause male infertility
A class of commonly used antidepressants may be the cause of infertility in some men, new studies suggest. Researchers at Cornell Medical Center in... Read more »
Depression Medications, Antidepressants, Suicide Risk
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Drug Treatment GuidelinesMajor Classes of Antidepressants and General Treatment GuidelinesMajor classes of antidepressants include:Selective... Read more »
What They Didn't Teach You in Sex-Ed: Top 5 Pregnancy Myths Revealed
MYTH #1: You can't get pregnant during your period It is commonly thought that a woman is fertile between the 10th and 17th days of their cycle. According to this theory, it wouldn't be possible to get pregnant during your period, which is at the...
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