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That's why the National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the drug fluvoxamine, part of the class of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. For eight weeks, researchers tracked 128 children, ages 6 to 17, who had been diagnosed with serious anxiety disorders. When they were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed any improvement. When they were given Luvox, a brand of fluvoxamine, 76% showed swift and substantial improvement...
...board in her practice. "Every patient comes in and talks about him," she says. "A lot of them ask what I think about the therapy sessions." The proportion of men seeking therapy has been rising, says psychiatrist Michael Blumenfield, partly because guys are learning that drugs like Prozac and Zoloft are "more effective, with less side effects" than older antidepressants. The Sopranos may be making men more comfortable with therapy for another reason: no matter what Dr. Melfi hears, she keeps her mouth shut...
...office. Learning that other psychiatrists were encountering a similar influx, he recruited doctors at nearly a dozen medical centers to join him in a clinical trial of the effectiveness of St. John's wort in combatting depression. With unrestricted funding from Pfizer, which makes both the prescription antidepressant Zoloft and an extract of St. John's wort, the doctors recruited 200 subjects, nearly two-thirds of them women in their 40s. All had suffered from major depression for at least four weeks. Some found it difficult to get out of bed or care for their children...
...study, sponsored by Pfizer (maker of both the antidepressant heavyweight Zoloft and herbal supplements) and the National Institutes of Mental Health, included 200 patents who took either St. John's Wort or a placebo pill for eight weeks each. The patients who took the herb showed very little or no improvement in their depression - the same results as the patients taking the placebo...
...soon to tell just yet. There's another study going on right now comparing St. John's Wort with Zoloft, and those results aren't out yet. But I do think overall that the public mood regarding herbal supplements is coming back to center. We're seeing a new era of caution; over the past couple of years we've seen that these "all natural" supplements can interact with traditional drugs and have very real side effects. So at this point, a little caution is definitely a good thing...