Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in the United States are seeking participants for a nationwide investigation into pharmaceutical treatments for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Participants receive medication and related medical care free of charge.
The advertising of prescription anti-depressants directly to consumers has been shown to exert a strong influence on the behaviour of prescribing physicians: if a patient requests a specific anti-depressant such as Paxil, they are much more likely to be prescribed that medication by their physician than if they don’t make such a request.
A new study of 240 moderately to severely depressed individuals fails to support current American Psychiatric Association guidelines indicating that most moderately to severely depressed patients will require antidepressant medication. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, concludes that cognitive therapy can be as effective as medication.
Following readers’ positive response to our addition of a drug research abstracts library to our Medications Centre, we have now expanded the library to cover even more of the latest research, including clinical trials, outcome research, drug safety and more.
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