1 Boring Old Man

Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior With Antidepressant Treatment
^{Reanalysis of the Randomized Placebo-Controlled Studies of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
by Robert D. Gibbons, PhD; C. Hendricks Brown, PhD; Kwan Hur, PhD; John M. Davis, MD; and J. John Mann, MD}
Archives of General Psychiatry. Published online February 6, 2012.

• Dr. Nemeroff et al [Impact of Publicity Concerning Pediatric Suicidality Data on Physician Practice Patterns in the United States]
• the people at the National Bureau of Economic Research [News coverage of FDA warnings on pediatric antidepressant use and suicidality]
• Dr. Libby et al [Decline in Treatment of Pediatric Depression After FDA Advisory on Risk of Suicidality With SSRIs]
• and now Dr. Gibbons with his ninth article related to the topic [Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior With Antidepressant Treatment].

• A Fresh Look At Antidepressants Finds Low Risk Of Youth Suicide
  NPR Health Blog
  by Alix Spiegel
  Feb 07,2012
• Study questions antidepressant link to suicide in kids
  Los Angeles Times
  By Shari Roan
  February 06, 2012
• No Link Between Antidepressant and Suicide in Kids
  ^{Study Calls FDA Black Box Warning Into Question}
  Medscape
  by Fran Lowry
  February 21, 2012
• Antidepressant-suicide link in children questioned
  ^{by Sharmila Devi}
  The Lancet. March 3, 2012 379:791.
• Data Diving
  ^{What lies untapped beneath the surface of published clinical trial analyses
  could rock the world of independent review}
  The Scientist
  By Kerry Grens
  May 1, 2012

Benefits From Antidepressants:
^{Synthesis of 6-Week Patient-Level Outcomes From Double-blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trials of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine
by Robert D. Gibbons, PhD; Kwan Hur, PhD; C. Hendricks Brown, PhD; John M. Davis, MD; and J. John Mann, MD}
Archives of General Psychiatry. Published online March 5, 2012.

I’ve never seen an article [one that was not even yet published in the Journal itself] receive so much immediate publicity and so I called it a campaign. But then yesterday, our attention was drawn by Tom to the Grand Rounds schedule in the Psychiatry Department at the University of Miami, new home of the infamous Dr. Charles Nemeroff – and there was Dr. Robert Gibbons giving a Grand Rounds presentation called Do Antidepressants work and do they cause suicide?. Then I looked at the date – February 20, 2012! So, in this case, he’s presenting the results from both studies before the second one was even available online! I can reach no other conclusion than that this Grand Rounds presentation was also part of the media campaign to debunk the FDA’s Black Box Warning, and that it is being somehow orchestrated by sponsors unknown. It’s not lost on us that this Grand Rounds was at Dr. Nemeroff’s Department, suggesting two things to me – PHARMA, and that Dr. Nemeroff is still in the game. Recall that Dr. Nemeroff was an early nay-sayer about the Black Box Warning [Impact of Publicity Concerning Pediatric Suicidality Data on Physician Practice Patterns in the United States]. Things never change, it seems…

Hat Tip to Tom