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...authors of the new paper, a team of 11 researchers led by University of Pittsburgh professor of epidemiology Stephen Wisniewski, were curious how the STAR*D group would compare with a typical group of patients selected for a run-of-the-mill drug-company trial for a new antidepressant - the very trials on which the Food and Drug Administration bases its decisions regarding new drug approval. Drawing on their own experiences in helping to conduct such trials, which have far more stringent inclusion criteria than the STAR*D group, Wisniewski and his team divided the STAR*D patients into...
Such findings help explain why antidepressants haven't quite lived up to their promise. But the University of Pittsburgh's Wisniewski, the lead author of the new study, cautions against interpreting the results as an indictment against greedy drug companies eager to exclude difficult patients in order to show better results. "If the population in a [clinical] trial were more representative, that would come at a cost," he says. Researchers expect a certain number of bad reactions during clinical trials; some of these reactions can cause serious medical problems. If patients enter a trial with multiple complications - if they...
...Civic Platform is friendlier toward business than the current government, it still may not have the political will to effect the tax-system and public-spending reforms that Poland desperately needs. "Economic conditions won't deteriorate, but it's hard to say whether they will improve," says Jacek Wisniewski, chief economist at Raiffeisen Bank in Warsaw...
...LIFESTYLE, Oct. 14]. Sadly, as you noted, this new American home is not about "family cohesion" but about "accommodating different lifestyles." It may not be the American Dream, but I like my cozy walls, miniature television and blinds that I actually walk across the room to adjust. JENNY WISNIEWSKI Wauwatosa...
...Erica L. Sanders, Wesley T.W. Shih, Jared B. Shirck, Dale R. Shuger, Adam A. Sofen, Aparna Sridhar, Charles T. Steenburg, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Srdjan L. Tanjga, Trygve V. Throntveit, Rachel E. Tobey, Greg Y. Tseng, Joshua S. VonKorff, Richard J. Wegener, Sophie E. Weirich, Elizabeth H. Winthrop, Christopher N. Wisniewski, Abraham J. Wu, Pierre Yared, Belinda D. Yu, Christine A. Zimmerman...