E-DRUG: escitalopram vs citalopram ads - new article
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[Best wishes for 2004 to all E-druggers - this year will be the 10th year
for E-drug!
Wilbert Bannenberg; wjb@wxs.nl]
E-druggers might be interested in a paper that I and Peter Mansfield
recently got published:
Escitalopram: superior to citalopram or a chiral chimera? Psychother
Psychosom. 2004 Jan-Feb;73(1):10-6.
In this article we assess the manufacturer's claims that the antidepressant
escitalopram (Cipralex, Lexapro) is more effective and has a faster onset of
action than the parent compound citalopram (Cipramil, Celexa). Citalopram is
off patent in many countries and is about 60% cheaper than escitalopram. We
conclude that the claims of escitalopram's superiority are unwarranted.
The abstract is available in Medline:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=14665791&dopt=Abstract
[fix the link!]
...and the advertisements with the manufacturer's claims are available at
the Healthy Skepticism's website:
http://www.healthyskepticism.org/ads/escitalopram.htm
Best regards,
Staffan Svensson
Dept of Clinical Pharmacology
Sahlgren's University Hospital
Sweden
staffan.svensson@pharm.gu.se
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