Personal Injury Law

Antidepressant Drug Trials

By Beth Janicek

Drug trials which were never published regarding antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac have misled consumers regarding their effectiveness.

A recent article from The New England Journal of Medicine found in published trials about 60 percent of people taking the antidepressents report significant relief from depression, compared with roughly 40 percent of those on placebo pills. However unpublished trials are included, the advantage shrinks to the drugs outperform placebos, but only by a modest margin.

It is very disturbing that 94 percent of the positive studies found their way into print when just 14 percent of those with disappointing or uncertain results did.

If you or a loved one have been injured as a result of the ineffectiveness of a medication and would like more information please contact me.

For more information on this subject, please refer to the section on Drugs, Medical Devices, and Implants.

Full post as published by San Antonio Personal Injury Lawyer on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).