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Meta-Analysis Shows Antidepressants Have No Significant Effects
Posted by David Dobbs on February 25, 2008 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…
What’s Under the Rock: Full Data Shows SSRIs Barely Best Placebo
Posted by David Dobbs on January 17, 2008 I’ve written before, both here and in print, about how FDA policy and drug company practices have allowed drug makers to publish (and the FDA to base approval on) only the most flattering drug-trial results while keeping less-flattering studies in the drawer. Today a New England Journal of Medicine report shows how things change when…