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Clinical Trials: Placebo Effect
Placebo Beat Both Zyprexa & Eli Lilly's Experimental Drug Print E-mail
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The results suggest that the truth may have escaped the usual exclusion criteria. Underlying the commercial success of the new antipsychotics is evidence (usually suppressed) showing that these drugs are both harmful and ineffective even for their approved use.
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Another Psych Drug Demonstrated to be USELESS / HARMFUL_Yale /Columbia Print E-mail
Wednesday, 06 December 2006
"the first-ever randomized, placebo-controlled trial for the alleviation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" reports: "we found that it really offered patients no benefits of any symptoms." [1]
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Controlled Trial: Antidepressants Useless to Treat Anorexia--Risk: 1 of 49 Attempted Suicide Print E-mail
Wednesday, 14 June 2006
 A team of researchers from Columbia University and the University of Toronto, headed by Dr. Timothy Walsh (New York) tested the effect of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia in a placebo controlled randomized trial.
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Humbling Reality--Treatments for Depression Often Fail_Boston Globe Print E-mail
Saturday, 11 March 2006
The Boston Globe reports (below): “More than 50 years after psychiatrists began widely dispensing drugs to treat mental illness, the profession is coming face to face with a humbling reality: Its treatments often fail, leaving millions of patients [  ] to suffer while doctors search for something that works.”
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Big Pharma: The Fool's Gold that Heals_New Book Print E-mail
Sunday, 15 January 2006
Big Pharma by Jacky Law reveals that in essence, most of the pharmaceutical industry's claims are false; it is not the drug, but the placebo effect whose potency deserves almost all of the credit for any health improvement:
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