A recent article in The Journal of the American Medical Association warns that pregnant women may greatly increase their risk of relapsing into depression if they stop taking their antidepressant medication. But the article fails to mention that most of its 13 authors are paid as consultants or lecturers by the companies that make the antidepressants, according to a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal. Most of the authors are well-known psychiatrists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of California at Los Angeles, or Emory University.
July 11, 2006
Was Study of Drugs and Pregnant Women Brought to You by Big Pharma?
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