Drug Supply issues: Provera100mg tablets and fluoxetine capsules
Information from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding the following supply issues... (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - September 20, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Study shows how serotonin and a popular anti-depressant affect the gut ’s microbiota
In this study, we were interested in finding out why they might do so,” said Hsiao, UCLA assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA College; and of digestive diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Hsiao and her research group reported in the journal Cell in 2015 that in mice, a specific mixture of bacteria, consisting mainly of Turicibacter sanguinis and Clostridia, produces molecules that signal to gut cells to increase production of serotonin. When Hsiao’s team raised mice without the bacteria, more than 50% of t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 6, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Psychotherapy Alone First Line of Treatment for Depressed Youth
Adding fluoxetine to cognitive behavioral therapy did not further reduce depressive symptoms (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - August 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
The addition of fluoxetine to cognitive behavioural therapy for youth depression (YoDA-C): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre clinical trial - Davey CG, Chanen AM, Hetrick SE, Cotton SM, Ratheesh A, Amminger GP, Koutsogiannis J, Phelan M, Mullen E, Harrison BJ, Rice S, Parker AG, Dean OM, Weller A, Kerr M, Quinn AL, Catania L, Kazantzis N, McGorry PD, Berk M.
BACKGROUND: Medication is commonly used to treat youth depression, but whether medication should be added to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as first-line treatment is unclear. We aimed to examine whether combined treatment with CBT and fluoxetine was ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
How a popular antidepressant drug could rewire the brain
(American Chemical Society) Prozac ® , the trade name for the drug fluoxetine, was introduced to the US market for the treatment of depression in 1988. Thirty years later, scientists still don't know exactly how the medication exerts its mood-lifting effects. Now, researchers report that, in addition to the drug's known action on serotonin receptors, fluoxetine could rearrange nerve fibers in the hippocampus of mouse brains. They report their results in ACS Chemical Neuroscience. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem, Prozac Weekly)
Title: fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem, Prozac Weekly)Category: MedicationsCreated: 12/31/1997 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 7/3/2019 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Depression General)
Source: MedicineNet Depression General - July 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
