Sentences with phrase «against placebo treatments»

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Patisiran was being evaluated in a late - stage study against a placebo for the treatment of patients with hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis with polyneuropathy.

Bone loss was higher in men compared to women in the placebo arm, and the protection against bone loss was higher in men than in women in the treatment arm.

Those studies really seek to make sure that the drug is safe, and if a drug passes that Phase I safety trial they move on to a Phase II trial, where that drug is compared against a placebo — so, no treatment or an existing drug to see if it performs as well or better than the existing drug.

For this reason, scientists believe it best to compare any treatment against a placebo rather than a no - treatment group.