The big pharmaceutical companies are to be 'shamed' into handing over their secret data on the effects of antidepressant medications, amid growing concern that the 'sunshine pills' may not work as well as originally promised. A government minister has taken the unprecedented step of calling on the drugs companies to give the data to the body that will review the current depression guidelines, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice). Ivan Lewis, the minister with responsibility for mental health, said that 'a failure to do so would leave the inevitable impression they had something to hide'.
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