Sentences with phrase «better than a placebo»

The review concluded that it works no better than a placebo.

Then they compare results to see if they've reached statistical significance, hopefully demonstrating that the real medication is better than the placebo.

Earlier this year the company reported that patients who took PRX - 002 saw their alpha synuclein levels drop by as much as 96 %, which is a massive improvement that performed significantly better than a placebo.

On November 8, Targacept, a drug company based in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, announced that TC - 5214 had performed no better than placebo in one of four phase III trials.

Also, there are alternatives that are better than placebos and not deceptive at all.

A study published this winter in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that psychoactive drugs are no better than placebos for people suffering from mild to moderate depression.

«As soon as somebody said, OK, this drug does better than a placebo, then it would be the standard that you test the next drug against or a combination of drugs against.

Despite encouraging evidence from animal studies that it clears amyloid from the brain, when it came to clinical improvements in human patients the drug proved no better than placebo in two phase III clinical trials.

• SSRI antidepressants work better than placebo in 1 in 5 people; but don't stop without consulting your qualified medical...

To get a drug to market, pharmaceutical companies have to show that it works better than a placebo.

A German study presented in July at the International Congress on Obesity tested nine dietary supplements marketed for weight loss — including L - carnitine and polyglucosamine — and found that none worked any better than placebos.

«We can't show, on the one hand, that it's better than placebo, but some men do have an improvement in their symptoms, and there seem to be virtually no side effects,» he says.

One found that 2 grams a day of DHA for six weeks was no better than placebo; the other — which was conducted in children ages 6 to 12 — found that a combination of EPA and DHA did outperform placebo.

«There have been numerous studies of the HCG diet, all of which demonstrate that it works no better than a placebo,» says George Blackburn, MD, PhD, associate director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School.

Fifteen of the trials found that it worked better than a placebo for pain relief and four trials found that it improved patients sleep.

Though two of these reassessments suggested the drugs were better than placebo for severe depression, the third one raised doubts about that as well.

And in a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), omega - 3s plus Zoloft fared no better than placebo plus Zoloft.

An analysis of studies published in 2012 however came to the conclusion that 5 - HTP is no better than a placebo.

Everything else is no better than placebo.

My hesitant response to his diatribe (hesitant because I know this statement flies in the face of everything I was taught during my medical training) is, Who cares if alternative medicine is no better than placebo?

And don't they realize that even if a clinical trial fails to demonstrate that a drug or surgery or alternative medicine treatment is better than a placebo, that doesn't mean it doesn't «work» when 18 to 80 % of the time, the body heals itself when given a sugar pill or saline injection in a clinical trial.

These drugs were recently shown to be no better than placebo for depression.

However, throughout the second four weeks, the spice was significantly better than the placebo in alleviating mood - related symptoms.

Some studies have shown that saw palmetto can bring relief, but according to the NIH, there is evidence that this popular herb is no better than a placebo in relieving the signs of enlarged prostate, and the agency recommends further study.

Antidepressants however have proven to be no better than placebo drugs, that's right — they don't work most of the time.

While some review studies on the substance indicate St. John's Wort is better than a placebo at treating mild to moderate depression with fewer side effects than traditional antidepressants, other review studies have found no difference in effectiveness.

While we understand that anti-depressant medications such as selective serotonin and selective serotonin and norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs and SNRIs) work better than placebo (in about 40 - 60 % of cases), scientists don't know for certain why they have an affect.

Studies of SSRI drugs show they are no better than placebo for most cases of depression (31), and they are not much better than placebo for menopausal hot flashes.

N - Acetylcysteine http://www.pcosnutrition.com/product/n-acetyl-cysteine-nac/ (NAC) has been shown to be better than a placebo for improving ovulation and egg quality but not better than metformin.

Antidepressants such as Prozac and Celexa have been shown to be better than placebo at treating hot flashes, and doctors sometimes prescribe these and other antidepressants for hot flashes «off - label» (i.e., without the FDA's official OK).

Fake surgeries — where doctors make some incisions but don't actually change anything — make people feel better than placebo pills alone.

Researchers for the American Chemical Society's weekly show, Reactions, took a look at systemic reviews and found there is very little evidence that cough syrup is effective at treating coughs, and that «carefully performed clinical trials show that these medications are generally no better than a placebo.»

Not exact matches

While a few studies have indicated that cupping may reduce pain and increase well being, as The New York Times notes there's scant research to determine whether it's anything more than a placebo effect.

I rather have a placebo with no side effects than your best crafted chemically produced scientific cure that gives me a thousand other symptoms in the long run.

• fathers (including fathers of children with autism) who inhaled oxytocin via a nasal spray showed less hostility and stimulated their child's exploration better than dads who had been given a placebo (Naber et al, 2010; 2013)

Regarding the science criticism, it's impossible to scientifically prove by a placebo - controlled, double - blind, randomized study (the gold standard in science) that AP works better than a more distant style of parenting.

Results showed that significantly more participants receiving the enhanced placebo SMT indicated good to excellent outcomes than those receiving standard placebo SMT or no treatment.

Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.

In drug trials, some people respond better to placebo injections than to placebo pills; or better to placebos for nausea than to those for pain; or even to one color pill than to another.

The study, published in The Lancet and funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), found that people with Parkinson's who injected themselves each week with exenatide for one year performed better in movement (motor) tests than those who injected a placebo.

According to a more recent study, the drug could also help nondiabetic individuals lose weight as well: Subjects who received the drug reported losing three times more weight over a six - month period than those who received a placebo.

The researchers found that neither naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen nor naproxen combined with cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or better improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo.

Among patients with acute, low back pain presenting to an emergency department, neither the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) naproxen combined with oxycodone / acetaminophen or the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine provided better pain relief or improvement in functional outcomes than naproxen combined with placebo, according to a study in the October 20 issue of JAMA.

But his research over the years has soured him on the drugs, suggesting they work only marginally better in the average patient than a placebo pill.

A recent study found that expensive placebos work better than identical cheap ones.

Drug companies typically test new products against placebos rather than head - to - head against other drugs, so doctors don't get good evidence about which drug is the better choice.

In a landmark 1999 study, Harvard psychiatrist Andrew Stoll found that bipolar patients who were given large doses of omega - 3s did significantly better and resisted relapse longer than a matched group of patients who were given placebos.

Researchers at the Chemical Abuse Centers in Boardman, Ohio, found that combining magnesium oxide with the drug verapamil helped control manic symptoms in patients better than a drug - placebo combination.

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

But a trial in which Kenyan women received a tenofovir pill daily was halted earlier this year after recipients seemed to be no better protected than those on placebos.