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Antidepressant treatment may reduce male fertility
piggy submitted, created time 1 week 3 days (www.reuters.com)
Treatment with paroxetine (Paxil), which belongs to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class of antidepressant drugs, increases DNA fragmentation in sperm, according to research presented today at the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in San Francisco.
Although the study did not directly evaluate male fertility, the fivefold increase in the number of men who developed abnormal sperm DNA while being treated with paroxetine is "troubling" and "suggests an adverse effect on fertility," co-investigator Dr 
Cymbalta May Cut Chronic Low Back Pain
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.webmd.com)
Cymbalta, a prescription drug used to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic nerve pain, and fibromyalgia, may ease chronic low back pain.
That's according to a study presented in Madrid at the twelfth congress of the European Federation of the Neurological Sciences.
The study included 236 adults with chronic low back pain who weren't depressed. They took Cymbalta or a placebo drug daily for thirteen weeks.
Average weekly pain scores, measured before taking Cymbalta or the placebo and again at the end of the study, showed greater improvement in the Cymbalta group
Viagra May Ease Sexual Problems of Women on Antidepressants
kavin submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (news.yahoo.com)
For both men and women, sexual problems are a common side effect of antidepressants. Viagra and similar drugs have long been prescribed to men in this situation. Now a study suggests Viagra may help women as well.
The study looked at ninety-eight premenopausal women with major depression who started to have sexual problems after going on a popular class of antidepressants that includes drugs such as Zoloft and Prozac. The women were randomly assigned to receive either Viagra or a placebo for eight weeks
Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 5 days (www.health.com)
Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive
If you're having sex drive issues, check your medicine cabinet. Several varieties of prescription medication can dampen desire.
Birth control:
Some hormonal birth control methods such as pills and patches can increase women's levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which drops the amount of testosterone that's floating around freely in the bloodstream
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.time.com)
Antidepressants are widely prescribed, cheap and safe. So should we sell them like aspirin? Bioethicist Josephine Johnston responds...
HIV Brought the Use of Antidepressants and Risk of Cancer in Individuals Infected with It
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (jco.ascopubs.org)
Antidepressants, irrespective of their class, do not affect cancer risk in HIV-infected individuals.
From a cohort of 10,997 patients representing 52,656 years of follow-up attending a large HIV center during the pre-HAART and HAART eras, a total of 2,004 (18%) were prescribed antidepressants representing 15,850 years exposed. A total of 1,607 (15%) individuals were diagnosed with cancer. There were no significant associations between any class of antidepressant and any type of cancer (P = .19).
VGF, a New Player in Antidepressant Action?
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (stke.sciencemag.org)
This study links VGF to the antidepressant-like behavioral effects produced by antidepressant drugs and exercise.
VGF (not an acronym), a neuropeptide that has previously been shown to be involved in maintaining organismal energy balance, as well as in mediating hippocampal synaptic plasticity, may be involved in mediating antidepressant responses.
Antidepressant may treat lazy eye
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 4 days (www.nature.com)
The drug fluoxetine (Prozac), prescribed to millions of people with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, might soon have an unexpected new medical use — as a treatment for lazy eye syndrome.
Protein discovery could lead to depression test
DanyC submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.reuters.com)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that a single protein in the brain changes its location within a cell membrane when an antidepressant is working, and this change could be identified with a simple blood test. But people with depression now must wait weeks before they learn whether the drug they are taking will bring relief.
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The signaling protein known as Gs alpha -- which is important for the action of neurotransmitters or message-carrying chemicals such as serotonin.
Effectiveness of antidepressants has been exaggerated
DanyC submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.newscientist.com)
Irving Kirsch's team at the University of Hull, UK, reviewed nearly 50 studies of the efficacy of four widely prescribed antidepressants. In a paper published in PLoS Medicine last week, the researchers conclude that the drugs work only in the most severe cases.
Maybe, this finding is most useful as a challenge to the drug companies. What the patients really need is change in their lives, real effectiveness.
Growing Up to Prozac: Drug makes new neurons mature faster
Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.sciencenews.org)
Peter Pan won't be pleased to hear the latest theory about how Prozac works. A new study shows that the antidepressant stimulates growth of neurons in the hippocampus and speeds the young brain cells toward maturity. The maturation process could be the mechanism by which the drug relieves depression.
Not Yet: CDC panel questions antidepressant gene test
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)
About half of all depressed people who take standard antidepressant drugs fail to improve.
Treating Depression Cuts Diabetes Death Risk
sumsung submitted, created time 11 months 1 day (health.allrefer.com)
Treating depression can help extend the lives of people with diabetes, concludes a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study in the December issue of the journal Diabetes Care
An antidepressant that extends lifespan in adult Caenorhabditis elegans
Sue Wu submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
The mechanisms that determine the lifespan of an organism are still largely a mystery. One goal of aging research is to find drugs that increase lifespan and vitality when given to an adult animal. To this end, we tested 88,000 chemicals for the ability to extend the lifespan of adult Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes. This article reports that a drug used as an antidepressant in humans increases C. elegans lifespan.
Worm study shows antidepressant may lengthen life
yangjane submitted, created time 11 months 4 weeks (www.reuters.com)
An antidepressant may help worms live longer by tricking the brain into thinking the body is starving, U.S. researchers reported.
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