What the Media Misses About Antidepressants

A recent meta-analysis in Britain was reported as showing that certain anti-depressants, namely SSRIs, are no better than a placebo in treating depression. STATS Maia Szalavitz explains on Scientific American why the coverage of this study misses the salient point: “when you are looking at aggregated data, huge individual differences can be washed out.”
Some people [...]

Antidepressants: Hiding Studies That Find No Result or Ignoring Poorly Designed Studies?

Trevor Butterworth
The New England Journal of Medicine has just published an interesting and possibly disturbing study showing that the anti-depressants Prozac and Paxil may be less effective than previously thought because studies showing their lack of efficacy were never published or incorporated into overall reviews of the drugs. As the New York Times reports:
In published [...]