News tagged with placebo response
Thumbs down for new testosterone patch to boost women's sex drive
Mar 03, 2009 |
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A new testosterone patch, designed to pep up a woman's flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may not work, and its long term safety is not proven, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
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Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...
Scientists present first genetic evidence for why placebos work
Jul 20, 2009 |
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usually mere sugar pills designed to represent "no treatment" in a clinical treatment study. The effectiveness of the actual medication is compared with the placebo to determine if the medication works.
Greater response to placebo in children than in adults
Aug 12, 2008 |
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In a systematic review of antiepileptic drugs, Philippe Ryvlin (of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, France) and colleagues show that children with drug-resistant partial epilepsy enrolled in trials seem to have a greater response ...
Does a placebo gene exist?
Nov 30, 2009 |
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A short time ago, Swedish scientists published a paper suggesting the existence of a genetic disposition to respond to placebo, thus giving rise to debate in the media about a possible "placebo gene." In the current issue ...
Depressed adolescents not harmed by being part of placebo group in clinical trial, researchers find
Jan 15, 2009 |
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In a national clinical trial, adolescents with moderate to severe depression first given a placebo treatment and then an antidepressant medication alone or in combination with therapy responded just as well over the long ...
US doctors regularly prescribe real drugs as placebo treatments
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Many rheumatologists and general internal medicine physicians in the US say they regularly prescribe "placebo treatments" including active drugs such as sedatives and antibiotics, but rarely admit they are doing so to their ...
Researching the power of the placebo effect in arthritis patients
Aug 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People with arthritis are to take part in new research carried out at The University of Manchester to find out more about how the placebo effect works.
Study evaluates placebo effectiveness
Feb 01, 2006 |
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Harvard Medical School scientists who usually use placebos to test a new treatment's effectiveness have conducted a trial testing placebos.
Prozac may help to curb disease activity in multiple sclerosis
May 01, 2008 |
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The antidepressant Prozac may help to curb disease activity in the relapsing remitting form of multiple sclerosis (MS), reveals preliminary research published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Ps ...
Popular alternative therapy for psoriasis performs no better than placebo
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Anecdotal evidence touting the healing power of the Indian spice turmeric for psoriasis received a setback in a prospective study published this month by a leading dermatology journal stating that the low response rate of ...
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