The FDA isn't intersted in probing this at all- they're only interested in a cover-up and ABC (as with all the corporate media) is plowing their typical snowjob (just as they keep doing with the Bush AWOL story) to assure everyone that the federal regulators are protecting us:
From the Feb 1st SF Chron:
Drug report barred by FDA Scientist links antidepressants to suicide in kidsA scientist at the Food and Drug Administration has been barred from publicly presenting his finding that several leading antidepressants may increase the risk of suicidal behaviors among children, according to sources inside the FDA.
FDA medical officer Andrew Mosholder was to present his report Monday at an FDA advisory hearing in Washington that promises to be a contentious affair involving competing medical experts and parents whose children took their own lives while on the medications.
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Mosholder, a child psychiatrist, reviewed data from 20 clinical trials involving more than 4,100 children and eight different antidepressants. His preliminary analysis, according to two FDA sources familiar with the report's contents, concluded that there was an increased risk of suicidal behavior among children being treated for depression with Paxil and several other antidepressants.
An initial agenda for Monday's hearing listed Mosholder and his findings, but his presentation was removed from a revised agenda, and Mosholder was told that he could not present his findings at the hearing, one FDA official, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Chronicle.
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While Mosholder's safety analysis report may eventually be completed and made public, some FDA insiders fear that withholding it from Monday's hearing indicates that the agency may be siding with the pharmaceutical industry in its long-running battle with critics of antidepressants.
"Why is the agency sitting on its hands and acting as if there isn't a risk when their own scientists have looked at the data and concluded that there is?" one FDA official remarked.
The rest of the storySo what we have is a researcher who has done an extensive meta-analysis and found that Paxil (and probably other SSRI's) significantly increase the risk of the worst adverse event in medicine- the preventable death of a child- and because he's reached a scientific conclusion that the pharmaceutical industry doesn't like, he's barred from even presenting his findings....
And the major networks won't even mention it
This is beyond corruption- and only a very sick, depraved society would tolerate or ignore such things. People often wonder why I loathe the corporate media as much as I do- well, here is a sterling example.