Tag: clinical trials for psychiatric drugs

When I first saw this Lancet 2018 network meta-analysis of antidepressant trials, my thought was that the authors had rewarded those companies that had cheated the most with their trials. My suspicion was strengthened when I looked at the results in their abstract and the three drugs they claimed were more effective and better tolerated.

The drug trial that led to the death of one participant and brain damage to several others last month had three major shortcomings, according...