Treatment with antidepressants may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in adults age 24 and younger, a U.S. advisory panel has said. However, the use of drugs in treating depression and protecting against suicidal behavior has found to be effective beyond age 30.

The panel chaired by Dr. Daniel Pine agreed with a FDA analysis which found that short-term use of the newest antidepressants seemed to increase the chances of suicidal behavior in adults up to age 25, while it appeared to reduce the suicidal thoughts in older adults

A study released Monday suggests anti-depressant medication could be an effective treatment for osteoporosis.

Scientists at Jerusalem's Hebrew University say depression itself lowers bone mass and that the bone density of people who are depressed is up to 60 percent less than that of non-depressed people

New research is shedding light on why children who take common antidepressants sometimes become more aggressive or even suicidal. Scientists who administered the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) Prozac to both juvenile and adult hamsters found that the young hamsters became aggressive while the adult hamsters did not. Their conclusion was simple: adult brains and and juvenile brains are different.

The FDA issued Prozac (fluoxetine) a "black box" waring in the Fall of 2004 after findings showed an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in some children and adolescents taking the drug

A major new study shows that, contrary to recent controversy that antidepressants may increase risk of suicide in users, antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have prevented thousands of suicides since they were introduced in 1988.

Dr. Julio Licino, chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami Miller school of Medicine says, "As the number of [SSRI] prescriptions go up, the number of suicides go down

A new study finds that Prozac does not help women with anorexia nervosa achieve a normal body weight, nor does it reduce their chance of relapsing.

HealthDay News reports that doctors have been prescribing the antidepressant for years to patients with the eating disorder