Antidepressants are not all created equal.

"all Antidepressants Are Created Equal" (some Are More Equal than Others)

"All antidepressants have a 60-70% response rate". "Nobody has ever proved that one antidepressant is better than another". How far are these statements true? Does this mean that antidepressants are interchangeable? All marketable drugs are categorized as belonging to a particular class depending upon specific biochemical or pharmacological properties. Grouping together drugs in this fashion ha...

Antidepressants: can't live with them, can't live without them.

A new wave of meta-analyses suggests that antidepressants are no better than placebo for major depressive disorder (MDD), and therefore, antidepressants not only don't work, but even worse, they harm patients because of the risk of adverse effects. The authors analyzed data from all antidepressant studies submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for registration (including failed studies w...

The Alpha in Fund of Hedge Funds Do Fund of Hedge Funds Managers Add Value?

All hedge funds are not created equal. A poorly chosen portfolio of hedge funds can produce disappointing results. All fund of funds managers are not created equal, either. A poor choice of fund of funds managers can yield disappointing results. This article is designed to outline the value proposition of a fund of hedge funds operation. We conclude that fund of funds add value primarily throug...

Not All Children are Created Equal: A Proposal to Address Equal Protection Inheritance Rights of Posthumously Conceived Children

Created equal: how the Declaration of Independence recognizes and guarantees the right to life for the unborn.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal."-Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream, 1963. We...

مصرف توأم داروها در روانپزشکی: مانیای حاد

Prescribing the overdose of medicatioin or polypharmacy for a patient is not principally recommended. Although , studies indicate that the usage of polypharmacy, specially from different groups of medicines, and in particular for refractory patients to treatment, if it is prescribed carefully, not only is beneficial but is necessary too. From the total patients who refer to medical doctors for ...