Antidepressants may impair male fertility

A small preliminary study suggests that antidepressants could impair male fertility by causing DNA damage to sperm. A US team gave 35 healthy men doses of the selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor paroxetine) for five weeks, and examined their sperm before treatment and after four weeks. The men's sperm seemed superficially healthy, with normal sperm amount, shape and motility. However when the t ...

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