More than 1 in 10 people in the United States take an antidepressant. And the most commonly prescribed type of antidepressant are SSRIs – or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. That's like Zoloft ...

Depression is a mental illness that can make everyday tasks feel difficult. But health professionals can offer many tools to help keep symptoms at bay. Depression, also referred to as major depressive ...

Roughly 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants. The most common type is SSRIs, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft. But what happens when you stop taking them ...

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 ...

On Monday, July 21, a 10-member panel headed by Marty Makary, MD, MPH, commissioner of the FDA convened in Silver Spring, Maryland, to discuss the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs ...

Antidepressants can be very effective, but they also come with side effects that vary from one drug to the next, supporting ...

Obstetricians and psychiatrists are concerned about a recent FDA panel spreading misinformation about the potential harms of using SSRIs during pregnancy and postpartum. Should pregnant women and new ...