Studies Cast a Starker Light on Depression Drugs
The value of using antidepressants to treat mild to moderate depression came under fire recently after a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the drugs didn’t work much better than a placebo in those with mild to moderate depression. These findings were widely reported because with 164 million prescriptions written and $10 billion in sales in 2008, according to IMS Health , these antidepressants (called SSRIs) were the third most popular class of therapeutics sold in the U.S. Companies are promoting an ever-increasing arsenal of SSRI’s and a whole new class of drugs—the atypical antipsychotics—for treating depression and other mental disorders. But despite their widespread use, the JAMA study adds to an emerging body of research that raises…
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Global Drug Discovery: Europe Is Ahead
[Health]A comprehensive data set of all new chemical entities approved between 1982 and 2003 shows that the United States never overtook Europe in research productivity, and that Europe in fact is pulling ahead of U.S. productivity. Other large studies show that most new drugs add few if any clinical benefits over previously discovered drugs.
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Phantoms In The Snow: Canadians' Use Of Health Care Services
[Health]Canadians who use medical services in the USA turn out to be mostly vacationers or on business trips. The "medicare refugees" myth actually originated in Canada itself, among opponents of Canada's existing healthcare system, and is only being parroted by opponents of public healthcare in the States.
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Costs to Physicians To Interact With Health Insurance Plans
[Health]Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staffs spend interacting with health plans. However, little information exists about the extent of these interactions. We conducted a national survey on this subject of physicians and practice administrators.
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Propaganda And Prejudice Distort The Health Reform Debate
[Political Opinion]. If Medicare-for-all gets “on the table” before the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees, the CBO must report its vast savings and its greater efficiency and effectiveness compared with more expensive alternatives. Only by censorship — only by treating Medicare-for-all as nonexistent — can lesser alternatives be discussed with a stra...
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Phantoms In The Snow: Canadians' Use Of Health Care Services
[Political News]Time to bring this study back out given that the "Canadians don't like their system and flock to the U.S. for medical care myth" is resurfacing.
