In the treatment of mental health disorders like depression and anxiety, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are often prescribed as first-line treatments. Among the most popular SSRIs are ...

Alcohol can increase Zoloft's sedative effects and reduce its benefits, which may worsen depression. Mixing Zoloft and alcohol may also cause a life-threatening condition called serotonin syndrome. If ...

A jury in South Carolina Tuesday found a teenager guilty of murder in the deaths of his grandparents when he was 12 years old. The judge then sentenced Christopher Pittman, now 15, to 30 years in ...

Use of antidepressants in children and adolescents surged in the last decade despite a dearth of information on the drugs’ safety and effectiveness in kids. That pool of knowledge is now beginning to ...

(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc on Friday defeated an effort to revive more than 300 lawsuits alleging that its antidepressant Zoloft causes cardiac birth defects in children when taken by women during early ...

In her bestselling 1997 memoir Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel was already expressing concern about the long-term effects of her new antidepressant: “I can’t help feeling that anything that works so ...