Topic: Erick Turner

Of 74 antidepressant studies registered with the FDA, 37 studies that showed positive results ended up being published. The missing or skewed studies helped create the impression that 94 percent of antidepressant trials had produced positive results, according to Turner's analysis ...

Antidepressants and Controversy

" In early 2008, a pair of studies questioning the track record of antidepressants spawned a rash of headlines like these and led depression patients to wonder if their antidepressants were doing any good. The first salvo against antidepressants came from a study ...

Study focuses on publication bias in journals

They just can't do it," said Kay Dickersin, PhD, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.. The message is "Don't believe everything you don ...
It's called the "file-drawer problem". But when Erick Turner of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and his colleagues combed through medical journals, they found that 23 of these studies never made it into a journal. Publication bias has exaggerated ...