This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

January 25, 2008

psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines

After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials. The new rules represent one of the most profound changes of the past 16 years to regulations governing drug development.

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