Entries from August 2008
August 3, 2008
Anti-depressants’ ‘little effect’
New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.
A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help only a small group of the most severely depressed.
Marjorie Wallace, head of the mental health charity Sane, said that if these results were confirmed they could be “very disturbing”.
But the makers [...]