A widely prescribed antidepressant is found to be unsafe for teens. Original study found to be flawed.
From The Guardian
An influential study which claimed that an antidepressant drug was safe for children and adolescents failed to report the true numbers of young people who thought of killing themselves while on it, re-analysis of the trial has found.
Study 329, into the effects of GlaxoSmithKline’s drug paroxetine on under-18s, was published in 2001 and later found to be flawed. In 2003, the UK drug regulator instructed doctors not to prescribe paroxetine – sold as Seroxat in the UK and Paxil in the US – to adolescents.
But experts who have obtained the original data say the study is still referred to in the medical literature and needs to be retracted.
In their re-analysis of the trial, published in the British Medical Journal, they say the beneficial effects of paroxetine on young people were far less and the harmful effects far greater than the study suggested....
......“It is often said that science self-corrects. But for those who have been calling for a retraction of the Keller paper for many years, the system has failed,” Doshi writes. “None of the paper’s 22 mostly academic university authors, nor the journal’s editors, nor the academic and professional institutions they belong to, have intervened to correct the record. The paper remains without so much as an erratum, and none of its authors – many of whom are educators and prominent members of their respective professional societies – have been disciplined.”
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Surprise, surprise....the brain of children and teens is different from adults. :duh: And I don't even have a degree in medicine, biology, chemistry, or any science for that matter. But even I have long suspected that the medicinal approach to kids should be different than to that of adults. I suspect the profit motive in all of this. Which just plays right into the hands of CCHR.
Top selling antidepressant unsafe for teens, study finds
From The Guardian
An influential study which claimed that an antidepressant drug was safe for children and adolescents failed to report the true numbers of young people who thought of killing themselves while on it, re-analysis of the trial has found.
Study 329, into the effects of GlaxoSmithKline’s drug paroxetine on under-18s, was published in 2001 and later found to be flawed. In 2003, the UK drug regulator instructed doctors not to prescribe paroxetine – sold as Seroxat in the UK and Paxil in the US – to adolescents.
But experts who have obtained the original data say the study is still referred to in the medical literature and needs to be retracted.
In their re-analysis of the trial, published in the British Medical Journal, they say the beneficial effects of paroxetine on young people were far less and the harmful effects far greater than the study suggested....
......“It is often said that science self-corrects. But for those who have been calling for a retraction of the Keller paper for many years, the system has failed,” Doshi writes. “None of the paper’s 22 mostly academic university authors, nor the journal’s editors, nor the academic and professional institutions they belong to, have intervened to correct the record. The paper remains without so much as an erratum, and none of its authors – many of whom are educators and prominent members of their respective professional societies – have been disciplined.”
http://ift.tt/1NFEuv5
Surprise, surprise....the brain of children and teens is different from adults. :duh: And I don't even have a degree in medicine, biology, chemistry, or any science for that matter. But even I have long suspected that the medicinal approach to kids should be different than to that of adults. I suspect the profit motive in all of this. Which just plays right into the hands of CCHR.
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