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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Long-term use of bipolar drug questioned

Long-term use of bipolar drug questioned
05/03/11 06:18 PM, EDT

The growing use of a popular drug in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder is based largely on a single, flawed clinical trial that may be steering doctors and patients away from drugs with a more established track record, a new review published this week in the journal "PLoS Medicine"
suggests. Read the full story at
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000434