News tagged with 'Fluoxetine Hydrochloride'

The Food and Drug Administration has approved new uses for the antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) to treat children and adolescents seven to 17 years of age for depression (major depressive disorder) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). This is the first approval of one of the newer types of antidepressants (select

A Pennsylvania family has settled a two-year-old negligence lawsuit with pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly and Co., the maker of the antidepressant medication Prozac. In their suit, Diane and Melvin Cassidy of Monroeville alleged Prozac caused suicidal thoughts and led Diane Cassidy to slit her wrists and overdose on a p

The maker of the antidepressant Prozac recently settled a nine-year-old lawsuit that alleged the medication contributed to an Illinois man's suicide. Businessman Charles Berman was taking the drug shortly before he leapt to his death from a Chicago high rise in 1991. Berman's wife and children filed suit against Eli