Posted by Garnet71 on January 18, 2009, at 9:16:01
In reply to Re: doctors get their info from the pharma industry?, posted by desolationrower on January 18, 2009, at 4:46:21
"The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs true effectiveness, a new analysis has found.
In published trials, about 60 percent of people taking the drugs report significant relief from depression, compared with roughly 40 percent of those on placebo pills. But when the less positive, unpublished trials are included, the advantage shrinks: the drugs outperform placebos, but by a modest margin, concludes the new report, which appears Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/health/17depress.html
This is why I am in amazement that so few even question these drugs--this apparently also includes the doctors who are prescribing them!
It is the medical-industrial complex. Politics. Money...
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