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“Major problem”: Ketamine fails to outperform placebo for treating severe depression in new clinical trial  PsyPostView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Summary: A large randomized and blinded clinical trial has found no additional benefit of repeated ketamine infusions over standard inpatient care for treating major depression. The study compared ketamine with a psychoactive placebo and found no meaningful differences in objective or self-reported depression scores, cognition, or quality of life. Researchers caution that previous studies may have overestimated ketamine’s antidepressant efficacy …

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants all health research stakeholders to commit to a “gold standard” when it comes to scientific research, including testing all new vaccines against a placebo before the Food and Drug Administration can approve them. “Our commitment is clear: every innovation in vaccine development must be grounded in gold …