Six months after the UK banned antidepressant drugs for children, Health Canada has
issued a warning that using 7 of the medications may make patients worse. Patients of all …

All antidepressants should come with a “black box” label warning that adolescents treated
with the drugs are more likely to become suicidal, according to an advisory panel to the US …

New “black box” warnings will appear this month in the United States on antidepressant
labels about the risk of increased suicidality among children using the drugs. The warnings …

Objectives To assess the impact of both the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM)
warning (December 2003) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) …

Background: Psychotropic medication prescribing for children and adolescents rose
significantly between 2000 and 2002, including antidepressant prescribing. In 2003, the …

Andrew Herxheimer, Barbara Mintzes ß See related articles pages 455 and 489 miscoding
and flawed analyses by regulators led to an underestimation of the risk of suicidal behaviour …

Objective To evaluate the effect of UK and US warnings placed in response to reports of
suicidal thinking in pediatric patients receiving selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and …

In a surprise move on 2 February, a panel of scientific advisers of the US Food and Drug
Administration urged the agency to warn that new anti-depressants may increase the risk of …

In October of 2003, the FDA issued a public health warning stating that preliminary evidence
showed selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and related antidepressants might …

During consideration of the proposed labeling change, the committee heard a number of
presentations summarizing evidence that suicidality in children and adolescents may be …