Starting people on antidepressants before they begin receiving alpha-interferon reduces the latter’s side effects, which include muscle problems and depression.

Miller, A.H., et al. 1999. Pretreatment with the antidepressant, paroxetine, blocks the development of behavioral alterations in humans during high dose interferon alpha therapy. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. October. Miami Beach, Fla.

Andrew H. Miller
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Atlanta, GA 30322

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 20, November 13, 1999, p. 319. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.