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Doctoring the Evidence: GlaxoSmithKline Pushes Depression Drug

by Shelley Jofre, Special to CorpWatch

July 30, 2007

GlaxoSmithKline provides research funding to doctors who write favorable opinions of depression drugs for children, despite evidence from clinical trials that the medication can cause anger and even suicide.

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