Do GPs and psychiatrists recommend alternatives when prescribing anti-depressants?

Anti-depressants and Children: Suicidality,

Antidepressants, specifically Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRis ), have been used to treat a plethora of neurological diseases, such as major depressive disorder (MDD)and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). 1 The first SSRI medication available for prescription was Eli Lilly Company's Prozac, which received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 1987.2 Initially, SSRis wer...

Growth and change in the prescribing of anti-depressants in New Zealand: 1993-1997.

AIMS To examine changes in the prescribing of anti-depressants in New Zealand from 1993-1997, in terms of expenditure, the number of dispensings and days of therapy supplied. METHOD Data on subsidised dispensings of anti-depressant drugs during 1993 to 1997 were obtained from PHARMAC and analysed using SAS. RESULTS The overall size of the anti-depressant market increased considerably over t...

Internet prescribing limitations and alternatives.

Ms. Friedman discusses the legal limitations placed on the consumer's ability to obtain drug prescriptions via the Internet. The article focuses on current legislative policies and regulations used to restrict access to prescription drugs over the Internet in the absence of a well-founded physician/patient relationship. The article argues that regulators might be able to satisfy the policy obje...

Should we recommend PEC and when?

Percutaneous endoscopic colostomy (PEC) was first described in 1986, by Jeffrey Ponski [1], who had invented percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy a few years before that [2]. Performed by 2 operators, PEC consists of placing a tube in the colon during colonoscopy in order to provide antegrade colonic enemas (ACE) in severe constipation or fecal incontinence [3,4]. The PEC tube can also be used a...

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