Medication for Depression and Anxiety: Don't Give Up Easily
Antidepressants “take time” to work in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and might take even longer in patients with anxiety disorders. But how long? When should clinicians switch medications? To learn more, researchers examined a pooled clinical trial database of 4357 patients receiving escitalopram for MDD (14 studies), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; 6 studies), or social anxiety …
Abstract Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the quality of lactation studies investigating antidepressants in breast milk according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft...