Antidepressents.
This was a bad year for antidepressant research. Antidepressants are a class of psychiatric medications most commonly prescribed to relieve depression, but increasingly being prescribed for practically any ailment. In January, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that showed there was a publication bias when it comes to antidepressant medications — one where even negative outcomes were repositioned as a positive outcome. This confirmed the long-standing belief that research showing a drug’s ineffectiveness (compared with a sugar pill) rarely see the light of day. And in the rare circumstances when they do, the researchers work to skew the findings to suggest something different than what the data show. CL Psych had the commentary.

I really found this part of the article interesting because it hits close to home. With some of my family members on antidepressents it is important that we research and know what is the best to take when having depression. It is interesting to learn that negative outcomes were reposistioned as a positve outcome and these results i will take home and share with my family.