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TL;DR: In a small Pakistan pilot, 23 of 25 adults given an Urdu version of a talk therapy for anxiety and depression finished all 14 weeks. The trial was too small to show the therapy works. Key Findings Signed up and stayed: 51 adults were randomly assigned t…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that treatment-resistant depression affected 34% of medication-exposed major-depression patients in Pakistan’s DIVERGE study, with social support and CYP2C19 metabolizer status standing out as locally important treatment…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Annals of General Psychiatry found that, among 457 adults with recurrent major depressive disorder in Pakistan, escitalopram was the most common single antidepressant and reported side effects varied sharply by drug class. Key Findings C…
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