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Antidepressant bone loss could be prevented with beta-blockers

September 7, 2016 by

The antidepressant fluoxetine causes bone loss by instructing the brain to send out signals that increase bone breakdown, but a beta-blocker can intercept the signals, a new study in mice has found.

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