After a decade of treating patches of eczema with topical steroids, something changed when Kelly Barta stopped using the ...
Mixing Prozac with brain-altering substances like alcohol can be harmful. In fact, it’s recommended that you avoid drinking alcohol while you’re on this medication. Prozac is an antidepressant. It’s ...
Fluoxetine (Prozac) is a type of depression medication. It belongs to a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Doctors sometimes use Prozac to treat other conditions, ...
Prozac was so popular after its debut in 1988 that it inspired not one but two best-selling books: Listening to Prozac and Prozac Nation (which was turned into a movie starring Christina Ricci). It ...
Miracles are hard to come by, but to many Americans Prozac looked just like one. Introduced in 1987, the new antidepressant took the market, and the public imagination, by storm. Not only was it ...
SHE HAS NEVER SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION, AND SHE'S not one to pop pills for fun. So why would a successful, 43-year-old public-relations executive take Prozac? Helen Baker of Chicago (who wants to be ...
In the six years I've worked for The Mail on Sunday, I've recovered from an eating disorder, suffered several bouts of severe anxiety, moved house twice and got married. Now I'm in the process of ...
After drinking mother’s milk spiked with the antidepressant Prozac for 19 days, infant mice bred to mimic the distinctive behaviors and brain abnormalities seen in autism experienced dramatic ...
It is one of the most popular antidepressants in the US, taken by more than 5.7 million Americans. But an increasing number of patients are warning about the crippling side effects of Prozac, ...
PROZAC AND PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER: AN OLD REMEDY FOR A NEW DIAGNOSIS PMS, THAT PERENNIAL IN-JOKE AMONG women, has a decidedly serious cousin: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe ...
Last spring, hundreds of people in Florida opened their mailboxes and found, in and among the junk mail and bills, padded envelopes full of powerful prescription drugs. Each package contained a ...
I started seeing a therapist the summer before my freshman year of high school. After several months of cognitive behavioral therapy — a form of therapy which focuses on changing negative thoughts and ...