Doubling Children's Suicidal Thinking

Antidepressants Double Children's Suicidal Thinking, Study Says

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March 6 (Bloomberg Canada) -- Antidepressants appear to double the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions in children who take them, U.S. regulators said in a study outlining the methodology used for a 2004 report that led to warnings on drugs including Eli Lilly & Co.'s Prozac and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Paxil.

The Food and Drug Administration first presented the findings, detailed today in the Archives of General Psychiatry, to an advisory panel in September 2004. The agency followed the next month with a requirement that makers of antidepressants warn patients and doctors with a notice in prescribing information highlighted with a so-called black box.