Another Former "Dr Drug Rep" Outs Himself

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 13:07

I found this a little belatedly, but then again, it is from a slightly obscure source (at least, if one lives on the East Coast of the US).

The Willamette Weekly ran a profile of Dr Erick Turner, the author of a systematic review that showed incorporating the results of unpublished trials of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) anti-depressants into the review produces much less optimistic results about these drugs than simply attending to the published trials.

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