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New patch aims to combat depression

By Alex Pauline

Students coping with depression now have one more option for treatment – and it isn’t a pill.

A new treatment for depression was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Unlike commonly prescribed anti-depressants like Zoloft and Prozac, this new drug, which will be marketed as Emsam, is not in the traditional form of a pill, but in patch form.

According to Bouv

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