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How to identify potentially significant side effects hidden behind “misleading means”

By Rajnish Mago, MD (bio) As you know, weight gain is one of the most important potential side effects of second-generation antipsychotics. Fortunately,  some of them are less likely to cause weight gain than others. As an example, let’s look at a paper describing the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating the…

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