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FDA Approves Prozac for Children 8 and Older

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From Times Wire Reports

Prozac is now formally available for depressed children.

Psychiatrists have prescribed the world’s best-known antidepressant, and similar competitors, to their youngest patients for years, despite a shortage of studies proving they work in children.

But the Food and Drug Administration declared that there’s finally proof that Prozac alleviates depression in children 8 years and older.

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