Medical Research News South Africa

Killing the pain with happy pills

Painkillers could prevent anti-depressants such as Prozac from working properly, research suggests.
(Image: Dvortygirl, via Wikimedia Commons)
(Image: Dvortygirl, via Wikimedia Commons)

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, are prescribed to two million Britons a year, but many complain the "happy pills' do nothing to clear their depression. Now scientists may have worked out why.

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