Posted by linkadge on June 30, 2009, at 7:38:17
In reply to Re: A similar study, posted by morganpmiller on June 30, 2009, at 3:55:42
Well, first of all I don't think SSRI's work all that well. Sure, some people improve on them, but many would improve on placebo too. More than half of all available clinical trial data on SSRI antidepressants fail to show a difference between active drug and the placebo.
Drug companies have worked long and hard to downplay some of the more serious side effects linked to SSRI drugs. They have been reprimanded for such activities of late. Every drug has side effects. If a priliminary study links SSRI therapy to heart attacks we should take it seriously and design safety trials to test the hypothesis. Instead, we sweep the findings under the carpet and blame them on something else. Plus, why would the drug company care? They've already got the drug approved. So long as nothing comes out to get them sued there is no problem.
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