Women and Anti-Depressants (Newsweek)
Sep 12th, 2008 by Viviane
by Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz
. . .For years, researchers have known that women are twice as likely to develop depression as men and they suffer a wider range of symptoms. But when it came to prescribing effective treatments, researchers couldn’t agree if gender mattered. As some small studies suggested, certain drugs worked better in women than men. Could there be significant biological differences in how each gender responded to these medications? A $35 million, federally funded study, was commissioned to answer the controversy, and its just-published results suggest that the answer to both questions is a probable yes.
Tags: depression, health, women