Weak Depression-Drug Data Unpublished

About one-third of research studies on depression drugs were not published, a new analysis has found. And the unpublished findings overall showed less benefit than those that were published. The authors looked at studies submitted to U.S. drug regulators between 1987 and 2004. They found that 38 studies showed a benefit from depression drugs. Of these, 37 were published. But 36 other studies showed less benefit or none. Only 14 were published. The New York Times wrote about the new analysis on January 17. The article was in the New England Journal of Medicine.