Thursday, May 25, 2006

Psychiatric drugs fare favorably when companies pay for studies

 
Psychiatric drugs fare favorably when companies pay for studies 
Posted 5/24/2006 11:37 PM ET
 
 By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
 
Drug companies fund a growing number of the studies in leading psychiatric journals, and drugs fare much better in these company-funded studies than in trials done independently or by competitors, researchers reported Wednesday.
 
 About 57% of published studies were paid for by drug companies in 2002, compared with 25% in 1992, says psychiatrist Igor Galynker of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
 
 

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