Abortion drug may be useful for severe depression
‘A short course of mifepristone — better known as the abortion drug RU486 — leads to significant improvement in patients with major depressive episodes with psychotic features, the findings of a small clinical trial suggest.
In many cases, because of the extreme danger of harming themselves, people with psychotic depression have to be hospitalized and undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock therapy
Previous studies have indicated that mifepristone may have rapid antidepressant effects in these circumstances, Dr. George M. Simpson of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues note, but results were clouded by patients taking other drugs simultaneously.’
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