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From a story in the March
23, 2006 edition of the Omaha World Herald:
Many depressed patients who didn't get better on one medicine
were able to overcome their crushing dark spells with another,
according to the largest study ever of treatments for America's
top mental health problem.
Up to one-third of those who added or changed medicines recovered.
When viewed with earlier results, the new findings mean that
roughly half the people who suffer from serious, long-term
depression can get over it - not just improve their symptoms
- with adequate medication.
"It's important not to give up if the first treatment
doesn't work fully" or causes side effects, said one
study leader, Dr. John Rush of the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas. Almost as many people were helped
the second time around as the first, he said.
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