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furrbear ([personal profile] furrbear) wrote2008-01-17 06:21 pm

Unfavorable Drug Studies Don't Get Printed - Your Health Suffers

Unfavorable studies of anti-depressant drugs were not published, leading to a scientific bias that may have caused doctors to write prescriptions that they otherwise would not have.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug being tested did not work, researchers reported on Wednesday.