Immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary, President Donald Trump instructed his administration to assess the “threat” posed to children by the prescription of ...

Are antidepressants next on Trump's chopping block? President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week to establish the "Make America Healthy Again Commission" to target chronic diseases, ...

If you or someone you know is taking medicine to treat depression, it might be a selective serotonin uptake inhibitor — more commonly referred to as an SSRI. SSRIs are the most commonly prescribed ...

As someone who’s lived in Phoenix for a few years, I’m pretty familiar with pavement-scorching, triple-digit temps. And while I can get as heat-fatigued as the next person, for the most part, I just ...

Kennedy’s antidepressant rhetoric is not only based on bad science, it fuels distrust in mental health treatments” in the ...

While SSRIs can be great for treating the symptoms of depression, they can have side effects, the most common being sweating, upset stomach, dry mouth, and sexual problems such as reduced sexual ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can be life-saving medications. They can alter the course of someone’s life by managing the often debilitating symptoms of anxiety and/or depression.

Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants ...

This guest post is by Dr. Adam Urato, a maternal and fetal medicine specialist. When a patient asks, “What are the risks of using an SSRI antidepressant during pregnancy?” she deserves an answer.