Sentences with phrase «much as the placebo»

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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.

Mr Williamson, who described the Downing Street website as «at best, a placebo», believes the parliamentary equivalent would not attract nearly as much volume as Mr Knight hopes.

This was the case in the new study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry — patients with major depressive disorder who were given a placebo saw their symptoms improve about three quarters as much as those given paroxetine, an antidepressant also known as Paxil.

The fact that they all paid $ 8000 to be included, as well as the study's lack of a placebo group, has attracted much criticism.

But those whose brain chemistry doesn't react as much to a fake medicine, or placebo, struggle even after getting an active drug.

As director of the pediatric motor disorders research program at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, she led the Project Cure SMA Investigators Network, a trial consortium that recently published the results of two placebo - controlled trials of the HDAC - blocking agent valproic acid, neither of which demonstrated much clinical advantage from the drug1, 2.

The green tea users lost nearly three times as much weight as the placebo group as well.

In a study in the British Journal of Nutrition, obese women who took a probiotic supplement (of the bacteria Lactobacillus rhamnosus) lost twice as much weight and fat over about six months — and were better at keeping it off — as those who took a placebo.

But those claims don't stand up to evidence, the authors wrote; breast milk doesn't even has as much protein as other milks like cow's milk, and no studies have shown that drinking it provides adults with any benefits beyond a placebo.

The 8 g / day dose shortened cold duration by 19 % in comparison to the placebo group, and two times as much compared to the 4 g / day dosages.

The dosage of 6 g / day shortened cold duration by 17 % in comparison to the placebo group, and two times as much compared to the 3 g / day dosages.

Placebo controlled studies, for example, have shown placebo to have almost as much effect on subjective symptoms of asthma as reaPlacebo controlled studies, for example, have shown placebo to have almost as much effect on subjective symptoms of asthma as reaplacebo to have almost as much effect on subjective symptoms of asthma as real drug.

A UCLA study showed that those who took phaseolamin lost twice as much weight as those in the group that received a placebo.

According to this study, which, lasted for 12 weeks, subjects supplementing with HMB gained triple the amount of lean mass as those taking a placebo... lost over twice as much body fat... gained far more strength... and were significantly less sore from their workouts.

And they performed twice as much work than rodents who received a placebo.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

In it Wampold, a former statistician studying primarily outcomes with depressed patients, reported that (1) psychotherapy can be more effective than placebo, (2) no single treatment modality has the edge in efficacy, and (3) factors common to different psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist has established a positive working alliance with the client / patient, account for much more of the variance in outcomes than specific techniques or modalities.