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US doctors regularly prescribe real drugs as placebo treatments
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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 ...
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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 ...
Internists say they prescribe placebos on occasion
Jan 03, 2008 |
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In the first study examining American physicians' use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st Century, 45 percent of Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during their clinical practice researchers ...
Common treatment for chronic prostatitis fails to reduce symptoms
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Alfuzosin, a drug commonly prescribed for men with chronic prostatitis, a painful disorder of the prostate and surrounding pelvic area, failed to significantly reduce symptoms in recently diagnosed men who had not been previously ...
It's not all in your head: Descending neural mechanisms of placebo-induced pain control
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A new study reveals that when it comes to pain control, the "placebo effect" involves evolutionarily old pain control pathways in the human brainstem, the part of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord. The research, ...
Who benefits from antidepressants?
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.
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.
Antidepressant and placebo are equally effective in child pain relief
Oct 01, 2009 |
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When used "off-label," the antidepressant amitriptyline works just as well as placebo in treating pain-predominant gastrointestinal disorders in children, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journa ...
COPD patients often given wrong treatment
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Generally speaking, patients with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) deteriorate suddenly, in bursts, often as a result of bacterial or viral infections.
Drug used for neuropathic pain relieves discomfort from abdominal adhesions
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Pregabalin, FDA-approved for neuropathic pain (pain caused by shingles and peripheral neuropathy), effectively reduced abdominal pain and improved sleep in women with adhesions, according to a Henry Ford study.
Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests
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Aug 04, 2008 |
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It's a Catch-22 of the highest order. People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep -- but it actually keeps them from getting good-quality sleep all night long.
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