Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Clinical Trials Controversy Spotlights Flawed System
Psychiatric News story - " The ongoing controversy surrounding SSRIs in children is now threatening the very foundations of clinical drug research on the efficacy and safety of all of the drugs physicians prescribe. Under the frequent—and often hyperbolic—headlines in major newspapers throughout the United States, the debate on whether SSRIs really cause children and adolescents to become suicidal has boiled down to a critical realization: Physicians now face a crisis of confidence in the American-bred system that conducts clinical research and, it would seem, publishes only the most marketable results..." See also, at the same source, AMA Backs All-Inclusive Clinical Trials Registry.