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Recent Examples of antidepressant
Robust scientific studies have not found a definitive link between antidepressant use in pregnancy and autism or birth defects.
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Rebecca Shabad, NBC news, 13 Jan. 2026
Monument Spring, which feeds into the Colorado River, showed traces of multiple pharmaceutical medications, including an antibiotic, antifungal, antidepressant, and a diabetic drug.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026
Antidepressants Coffee may affect how your body absorbs antidepressant medication, which is used to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.
—Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 7 Jan. 2026
In October 2004 the FDA required a boxed warning of this risk to be on the labels of all antidepressant drugs.
—Stephen B. Soumerai, STAT, 7 Jan. 2026
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Rebecca Shabad, NBC news, 13 Jan. 2026
Monument Spring, which feeds into the Colorado River, showed traces of multiple pharmaceutical medications, including an antibiotic, antifungal, antidepressant, and a diabetic drug.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026
Antidepressants Coffee may affect how your body absorbs antidepressant medication, which is used to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.
—Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 7 Jan. 2026
In October 2004 the FDA required a boxed warning of this risk to be on the labels of all antidepressant drugs.
—Stephen B. Soumerai, STAT, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidepressant
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Epibatidine intrigued researchers for decades and was once highly sought after as a potential analgesic many times more powerful than morphine.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Some studies suggest lemongrass has anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and analgesic (pain-relieving) properties.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
8 Dec. 2025
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Slow-walked the trial use of the fast-acting anesthetic ketamine by paramedics, who were able to administer only four doses in six months under his stewardship.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Part of what makes leeches so effective at blood-sucking is that their saliva has uniquely anesthetic and anticoagulant properties, so they’ve been used for thousands of years for folk medicines in Asia and Eastern Europe.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Antidepressant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidepressant. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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