How to Use paroxetine in a Sentence

paroxetine

noun
  • However, paroxetine tends to be the most difficult of these.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 May 2022
  • In the dataset as a whole, paroxetine barely outperformed placebo.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
  • Some antidepressants, such as paroxetine, can be used to treat hot flashes at doses less than what is given for depression.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Now a new paper claims to provide a definitive assessment of the safety and efficacy of paroxetine in adults (age 18+).
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2011
  • On neither of these measures did paroxetine work better than placebo at the p=0.05 significance level.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2011
  • The blood thinner warfarin is one example; so is oseltamivir, the key ingredient in the flu medication known in the US as Tamiflu; so is paroxetine, an antidepressant.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Those who take melatonin as an over-the-counter sleep aid, the heart medication carvedilol or the anti-depressant paroxetine are less likely to test positive than patients who don’t take those medications, the study suggested.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 June 2020
  • The lead authors are from GlaxoSmithKline, who invented paroxetine.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2011
  • Risk for the coronavirus was reduced in those who had a pneumococcal polysaccharide or influenza vaccine, or were on melatonin, paroxetine, or carvedilol, according to Clinic research.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 June 2020
  • Of the 11 antidepressants analyzed, mirtazapine (Remeron) caused the greatest weight gain, followed by paroxetine (Paxil).
    Andrea Alfano, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
  • Withdrawal symptoms in people stopping depression medications of the class of paroxetine (Paxil) are common.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 May 2022
  • For women who don’t want to undergo estrogen therapy or who can’t for health reasons, Dr. Schaffir says that doctors will typically offer the anti-depressant paroxetine (aka Paxil), which can help relieve some menopausal symptoms.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Medications like fluoxetine, paroxetine, and escitalopram have shown to delay ejaculation as a side-effect of the drugs, Dr. Kaufman said.
    Korin Miller, Health, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The doctors first treated her depression and panic symptoms with an antidepressant, paroxetine, and an anti-anxiety medication, clonazepam.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Studies have found that babies exposed to paroxetine (akaPaxil, Pexeva, and Brisdelle) are roughly twice as likely to be born with cardiovascular or other malformations than babies exposed to other antidepressants or no drugs at all.
    Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
  • According to Anderson et al, Motor neurons were challenged with fluoxetine and paroxetine at clinically relevant doses ...
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
  • For these people, antidepressants such as paroxetine, sertraline and venlafaxine are recommended as alternatives, or as an addition to psychotherapy.
    C. Michael White, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
  • There are also four medications (sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine, and venlafaxine) that have a conditional recommendation to treat PTSD.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023

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