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Giving Up Cigarettes: Drugs That Raise the Odds
A new drug that fights cigarette addiction more than triples a person's odds of quitting, compared with using no drugs at all, according to a review of research on the drug. Meantime, another study found that certain...
Continuation Electroconvulsive Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy for Relapse Prevention in Major Depression
A Multisite Study From the Consortium for Research in Electroconvulsive Therapy (CORE)
Patient's Genes May Guide Antidepressant Use
New insights into how genes affect an individual's response to particular drugs could someday speed the effective treatment of depression, researchers say.
Medical Edge
Patients with diabetes (who need insulin chronically) and patients with hypertension (who take antihypertensive drugs on a regular basis) are in a similar situation. Their medications, like antidepressants, do not merely mask...
Study: 3rd Depression Drug Rarely Helps
The large group of depression sufferers who haven't recovered with two common medications stand little chance of success from a third drug, says the latest report from the nation's most ambitious study of depression treatment.