Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8958

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Publication type: news

Carey B.
Panel to Weigh Expansion Of Antidepressant Warnings
New York Times 2006 Dec 13A30
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30912FD3E550C708DDDAB0994DE404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fC%2fCarey%2c%20Benedict

Abstract:

Public health officials, psychiatrists, grieving parents and outraged former patients will fill a hotel ballroom in Silver Spring, Md., this morning to argue the most bitterly divisive question in psychiatry: do the drugs that doctors prescribe to relieve depression make some people more likely to attempt suicide? The hearing, called by the Food and Drug Administration, will be the first time a government panel has addressed the question since 2004, when impassioned testimony resulted in the…