Comparison of Schiz. Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study

MountainLaurel

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Wed Apr-12-06 09:12 AM
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Comparison of Schiz. Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study

Raise your hand if you're suprised by this finding?

*crickets*

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. recently funded five studies that compared its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa with Risperdal, a competing drug made by Janssen. All five showed Zyprexa was superior in treating schizophrenia.

But when Janssen sponsored its own studies comparing the two drugs, Risperdal came out ahead in three out of four.

In fact, when psychiatrist John Davis analyzed every publicly available trial funded by the pharmaceutical industry pitting five new antipsychotic drugs against one another, nine in 10 showed that the best drug was the one made by the company funding the study.

"On the basis of these contrasting findings in head-to-head trials, it appears that whichever company sponsors the trial produces the better antipsychotic drug," Davis and others wrote in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101478.html?nav=rss_health

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varkam

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Wed Apr-12-06 09:26 AM
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1. Things that make you go..

hmmmmmmmmmm....

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drm604

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Wed Apr-12-06 09:48 AM
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2. This is disgusting.

Not surprising, but still disgusting. :grr:

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drm604

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Wed Apr-12-06 09:50 AM
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3. You might want to also post this in one of the more popular forums,

maybe GD. This deserves a lot of attention.

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MountainLaurel

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Wed Apr-12-06 09:57 AM
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4. Will do.

Edited on Wed Apr-12-06 09:58 AM by MountainLaurel

It'll give people a break from fighting about immigration.

Thanks!

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