Posted by JLM on December 14, 2003, at 4:13:44
In reply to Re: Cymbalta/Duloxetine timing, posted by pseudonym on December 14, 2003, at 3:00:57
Who conducted the 52 weeks study? Do you have any more details. I'd like to read that.
These types of claims have been made before, for instance with Effexor, and they later proved to be not true.
I don't think one single study is good enough. I'd like to read it, see WHO did (which at this point is more important than ever), and see the methodology.
There was an article in the British press recently that pointed out that about 50 percent of articles are pharmacotherapy are now ghostwritten. Interesting.
Now, the results you have cited may well be valid, I don't know, but that still doesn't answer the question as to why the drug was shelved in the first place, or why they waited for fluoxetine to go off patent, or why they went with r-fluoxetine first, and only pulled this out when it was clear that r-f wasn't going to fly. If the drug is really that supieror to everything else, why wait over a decade to bring it to market? Why not bring
it out in the early 90's and just totally slay your competition?
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