A more recent study from Retina Implant showed even greater promise, with videos showing one previously
blind patient who could identify apples and bananas, and who could tell when his name had been misspelled.
«I remember putting them on and looking up and I saw my husband who I'd been married to for eight years and had never seen before,» one
blind patient who uses the eSight 3 told CNET.
In the first published results from a clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells, two legally
blind patients who received an injection of hESC - derived cells in one eye have experienced no harmful side effects and appear to have slightly better vision.
Not exact matches
It was a double -
blind controlled trial in two outpatient dermatology clinics with adult Atopic dermatitis
patients who were diagnosed by history, pattern, evolution, and skin lesions.
He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra,
who has studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country
who followed 230
patients in a double -
blind randomized control study [the gold standard for medical research].
For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double -
blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor
patients know
who is receiving the treatment under investigation and
who is receiving the placebo or sham.
Yesterday, at the annual American College of Rheumatology meeting in Atlanta, Ga., researchers announced the results of a double -
blind, randomized trial in more than 600
patients: tasocitinib eased pain and inflammation in 65.7 percent of those
who received the highest dose of the drug, whereas only 26.7 percent of those
who received a placebo reported relief.
The Phase 2, double -
blind trial enrolled 142
patients with advanced melanoma
who had not received prior therapy.
Some studies suggested that
patients responded well, but they didn't have the controlled, randomized, and
blinded design that allows researchers to be sure, says Simon Mardel, a medical officer working on SARS at the World Health Organization (
WHO) in Geneva.
The study found that
patients who received T - sol during the open - label phase had improved symptoms regardless of whether they had received placebo during the
blinded phase.
In that randomized, double -
blind, placebo - controlled, phase III trial, 561
patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer
who were in complete or partial response to platinum - based chemotherapy were treated with either rucaparib 600 mg orally twice daily (372
patients) or to placebo (189
patients).
The current HTTRx trial has a
blinded design: some volunteers received four injections containing no active drug — and neither the
patients nor the trial personnel knew
who was receiving drug or placebo.
A new study out today in Neurology, provides the first evidence that rigorous visual training restores rudimentary sight in
patients who went partially
blind after suffering a stroke, while
patients who did not train continued to get progressively worse.
In a double -
blind trial, neither the
patient nor the study researchers know
who is receiving the experimental treatment.
«The drug was so good it broke the
blind,» says Bernard Munos, a senior fellow at FasterCures, a think tank based at the Milken Institute — meaning the positive trial results were so clear that
patients and doctors could easily tell
who was receiving the drug and
who got a placebo.
Plus, in this double -
blind, placebo controlled study researchers found that IBS
patients who took a soil - based probiotic experienced a significant reduction in symptoms after two weeks.
Therapeutic Activity of Oral Glucosamine Sulfate in Osteoarthrosis: A Placebo - Controlled Double -
Blind Investigation Clinical Therapeutics 1980; 3 (4): 260 — 272 The
patients who had placebo showed a typical picture of established osteoarthrosis.
One 2006 double -
blind placebo - controlled study showed that ulcerative colitis
patients who took curcumin for six months had a significantly lower relapse rate than those taking the placebo.
Dr. Abram Hoffer,
who is announced as «discredited» by Wikipedia, has successfully been treating
patients with pyschosis for 50 years with vitamin B3, Niacin, which was successful in pyschitry's first placebo control double
blind study.
Of sixty nine
patients who used stinging nettle in a double
blind study 58 % said that it was effective in relieving their allergy symptoms.
Melatonin improves abdominal pain in irritable bowel syndrome
patients who have sleep disturbances: a randomised, double
blind, placebo controlled study.
In a recent trial for ulcerative colitis, a multicenter, randomized, placebo - controlled, double -
blind study found that more than 50 percent of
patients achieved remission within just one month on curcumin compared to none of the
patients who received the placebo.
Lin, Y. S., Lin, L. C., and Lin, S. W. Effects of zinc supplementation on the survival of
patients who received concomitant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: follow - up of a double -
blind randomized study with subgroup analysis.
As a matter of fact, results of a comprehensive double -
blind scientific study with The Original Himalayan Crystal Salt conducted at the Inter-University of Graz, Austria, demonstrated that the
patients in the study
who used Original Himalayan Crystal Salt «saw significant positive changes in respiratory, circulatory, organ, connective tissue and nervous system functions.»
Per the study,
patients who take fluoroquinolones have a five times greater chance of suffering from potentially
blinding retinal detachment than those not taking this type of antibiotic.
Lubin & Meyer represents two of the
patients who were
blinded during cataract surgery at Cataract & Laser Center West, in W. Springfield, Massachusetts.
Independent assessors
who were
blind to the
patients» group status assessed
patients at 6 - month intervals using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV to determine relapse status.
We thank all the
patients who participated and Alison Clements and Aslog Malmberg for help with the
blind Karnofsky scale ratings.
A summary of the findings was subsequently rated on the Karnofsky scale20 by another researcher,
who was
blind to the
patient's treatment.
The research staff
who interviewed
patients (and their friends / family) to determine smoking status were
blind as to which
patients were in the Staying Free versus control group.
Studies, including a double -
blind, randomized trial showed that more than 60 percent of
patients who took 150 milligrams of CoQ10 daily experienced a 50 percent or better reduction in the number of days with migraines.