Wednesday, January 30, 2008

New review brings antidepressant effectiveness into question

General Health January 30, 2008
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A New England Journal of Medicine study reviewed numerous antidepressant trials up to 2004, in an attempt to determine how well the data support their efficacy. The important difference in this study was that the reviews covered data submitted to the FDA, not data published in journal articles.
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