Sentences with phrase «coating on a placebo»
Its staff help principal investigators to work out the tiniest details of doses and delivery methods, whether they are preparing a parotid - gland injection or putting a film coating on a placebo pill to make it indistinguishable from the active drug in the trial.
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Suddenly, it was clear that when a patient improved on placebo, it wasn't just some delusion or an effort to please a person in a lab coat.
In a small study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2001, for instance, 46 people with high cholesterol were placed on a low - fat diet and assigned to 12 weeks of treatment with either a placebo or enteric - coated garlic powder tablets designed to deliver 9.6 mg of allicin.