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We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests.  I recently (and unfortunately belatedly) came upon yet another example of suppression of research that was unfavorable to a research sponsor's vested inter

Last week, blogger Alison Bass was one of the few to comment on a new article on the risks of antidepressant medications published electronically last week by the British Medical Journal.[1] The adds to the clinical evidence about these specific drugs.

However, it also should remind us about why our health care costs seem to continue to inflate disproportionate to any improvements in health care outcomes.