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The Drug Bust II: Big New Study Shows Antidepressants Have No Significant Effect

Posted by David Dobbs on February 26, 2008
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[This is a revised, expanded version of the original heads-up I put up last night.] A large new meta-analysis of SSRI antidepressant trials concludes that the drugs have essentially no therapeutic effect at all. The study, in PLOS Medicine today, comes on the heels of another study published a few weeks ago (I blogged on…

Meta-Analysis Shows Antidepressants Have No Significant Effects

Posted by David Dobbs on February 25, 2008
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I’ve not had time to thoroughly read this yet. But on the heels of another study published a few weeks ago (I blogged on it here) showing that SSRIs have little therapeutic effect if you include the (unflattering) clinical trials the industry had previously hidden, PLOS Medicine now publishes a larger study — a meta-analysis…