- Gender Bias Seen In Response To Common Antidepressant (Medical News Today)
Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps ease their depression symptoms.
- Celexa or celebrex? Efforts seek to reduce drug-name mistakes (Arizona Daily Star)
WASHINGTON ? Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine.
- Medicine Mix Ups (WCTV Tallahassee)
When it comes to medication the names can all start to look and sound the same. And that can prove to be fatal.
- Antidepressant Response Varies by Gender (Psych Central)
A new study finds that women with depression may be much more likely to gain relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug. The persistence of a gender difference in response to the drug ? even after the researchers accounted for many complicating factors ? suggests that there?s a real biological difference [...]
- Watch out for drug names that look, sound alike (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine. Mixing up drug names because they look or sound alike ? like this trio ? is among the most common types of medical mistakes, and it can be deadly. Now new efforts are aiming to stem the confusion, and make patients more aware of ...
- Watch out for drug names that look, sound alike (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout