Clinical trials and legal jeopardy
Healy, D.
Bulletin of Medical Ethics 1999(153): 13-18
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0962-9564 PMID: 12201317 Document Number: 499336
On neither side of the Atlantic have research ethics committees found a satisfactory way of ensuring that all serious side-effects of new treatments being studied are noted and reported to them, without being deluged in reports of minor adverse events. The author of the following paper is probably the leading historian of psychopharmacology: he discusses the issue, and its implications for RECs, in the light of the serious side-effects of the new generation of SSR antidepressants.