Pfizer Sued for Consumer Fraud over Antidepressant – Suit Claims Drug No More Effective than Placebo

by Linda A. Johnson
Associated Press – usatoday.com

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The maker of Zoloft is being sued in an unusual case alleging the popular antidepressant has no more benefit than a dummy pill and that patients who took it should be reimbursed for their costs.

R. Brent Wisner of the Los Angeles firm Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman, argues the Food […]

New Study: Antidepressant Drugs no Better than Placebo

By Amy Norton
reuters.com

(Reuters Health) – Neither antidepressants nor “talk therapy” were able to outperform inactive placebo pills in a new clinical trial on depression treatment — though there were hints that the effects varied based on people’s sex and race, researchers report.

The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, add to evidence that […]