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Who Benefits From Antidepressants? US Health Inequities
By Depressed Jane | February 26, 2008
Who benefits from antidepressants?A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.”New generation” antidepressants, such as fluoxetine (Prozac) are widely prescribed for the treatment of clinical depression. However some studies have suggested that these drugs do not help the majority of depressed people get better by very much.
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