Friday, July 20, 2007

Manipulating Data, Endangering Lives for Profit

"Washington, DC: In a June 27, 2007 press release that made headlines all over the world the US Centers for Disease Control announced that birth defects associated with the use of antidepressants by pregnant women are rare. As proof for this claim, the CDC cited two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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"The public needs to know that the CDC study was funded in part by GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Paxil, which carries the strongest FDA warnings about birth defects developing in infants exposed to the drug in the womb."

—by Evelyn Pringle, "CDC Leads SSRI* Disinformation Media Blitz, Juy 20, 2007, www.lawyersandsettlements.com

SSRI: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of antidepressants