[Ip-health] WSJ: pharma suppressing data on

[Ashwin Vasan]

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it's shocking that this won't get more pub

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120051950205895415.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

"A total of 74 studies involving a dozen antidepressants and 12,564
patients were registered with the FDA from 1987 through 2004. The FDA
considered 38 of the studies to be positive. All but one of those
studies was published, the researchers said.

The other 36 were found to have negative or questionable results by the
FDA. Most of those studies -- 22 out of 36 -- weren't published, the
researchers found. Of the 14 that were published, the researchers said
at least 11 of those studies mischaracterized the results and presented
a negative study as positive."





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Ashwin Vasan, MSc
MD Candidate
University of Michigan Medical School
PhD Candidate
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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