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...Such questions have assumed greater urgency as more is revealed about the side effects of some mental-health medications. Last year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urged the makers of antidepressants to expand a 2004 "black box" warning that the drugs may increase the risk of suicide in children and adolescents. The agency asked for - and got - an expanded warning that included young adults ages 18 to 24, the age group at the heart of the Army. The question now is whether there is a link between the increased use of the drugs in the Iraqi and Afghan...
...Trauma of War Before the advent of SSRIs - Lilly's Prozac was the first to be approved by the FDA, in 1987, followed by Zoloft from Pfizer, Paxil from GlaxoSmithKline, Celexa from Forest Pharmaceuticals and others - existing antidepressants had many disabling side effects. Impaired memory and judgment, dizziness, drowsiness and other complications made them ill suited for troops in combat. The newer drugs have fewer side effects and, unlike earlier drugs, are generally not addictive or toxic, even when taken in large quantities. They work by keeping neural connections bathed in a brain chemical known as serotonin. That amplifies serotonin...
...have some complaints about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet we also realize that without the FDA medicine might have been nothing but leeches and placebo–isn’t it time to take the same systematic approach to economic policies that are so central to our society...
...Laboratory record hours of television every day, isolate drug commercials, and systematically measure their "cognitive accessibility." It's the kind of research that also helps Day explain how well, for example, jurors understand instructions given in court. Day (whose research is not funded by either the industry or the FDA) analyzes ads for their linguistic complexity, speed of voiceovers, visual distractions and the timing of when information is given about drug benefits and side effects - all to help determine how easy it is to understand and remember the information presented...
...transluminal coronary angioplasty with drug-eluting coronary stents, but other types of medical devices had been advertised on television previously. Also, a previous version of the article stated that Duke researcher Ruth Day had no financial connection to the Food & Drug Administration. She has worked as a consultant for FDA in the past, but her research is not funded by FDA...