Sentences with phrase «than a placebo for»

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.

One of these, a 2011 study led by psychiatrist Mark H. Rapaport, then at Cedars - Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, indicated that the plant was no more effective than a placebo for mild to moderate depression.

It corroborates the findings of another NIAID - funded study demonstrating that TMP - SMX treatment resulted in better clinical outcomes than placebo for MRSA skin abscesses, and also upholds other findings that both clindamycin and TMP - SMX are equally beneficial in treating MRSA skin infections.

The result: The drug «was no more effective than placebo for pain relief in patients with moderate to severe hand pain,» the study authors concluded.

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.

The results of a review of twenty nine randomized, placebo controlled trials revealed that St. John's wort was more effective than placebo for depression and just as effective as standard antidepressants.

Research suggests that St. John's wort is more effective than placebo for depression.

«A 2012 study found that fennel seed was more effective than a placebo for controlling severe menstrual pain.

FDA approval means the drug is more effective than placebo for its indicated use and benefits outweigh risks.

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

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.

J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry2002 Mar; 41:253 — 61OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science QUESTION: In children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are stimulants more effective than placebo for improving overt and covert aggression related behaviours?

Not exact matches

There was also less than one additional case for every 1,000 women per year for heart disease and for stroke in the hormone - treated women compared with those on placebo.

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.

For example, mice given 25HC before being infected with Zika virus had significantly lower blood levels of the virus than mice given a placebo.

After phase III trials, reported in 2006, ended in disappointment for the prostate cancer vaccine Provenge (made by Dendreon in Seattle), subsequent analyses revealed that men whose prostate cancer had spread survived a median of 4.5 months longer than those given a placebo.

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.

«For example, a non-blind trial of a new drug might conclude that it is way more effective than a placebo, when in fact the drug's true effect is rather modest, simply because the researchers» expectations biased the results.»

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

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.

Thus, so far, it has never been investigated whether individuals in clinical trials experiencing side effects from antidepressant medication, and for this reason may have guessed that they have not received placebo, also respond more favorably to treatment than those without side effects.

Analyzing clinical trial data from 6,710 smokers using varenicline for smoking cessation through Dec. 31, 2014, McKee's team confirmed many prior clinical trial findings in demonstrating that women were less likely than men to quit when using a placebo.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

Belviq has also shown promise for people with type 2 diabetes, who were twice as likely to keep their blood sugars under control than those on the placebo.

Other studies found that hypnotized subjects could resist intense pain for a full minute longer than those who weren't hypnotized, and for 30 seconds longer than those who had been given a placebo painkiller.

For both trials, results at the end of the first stage confirmed the phase 2 trials result — that adalimumab provided significantly greater symptom relief than placebo, with no unexpected serious adverse events.

The IPERGAY researchers found that men who have sex with men and transgender women at high risk for HIV infection who took PrEP around the time of sexual activity were 86 percent less likely to acquire HIV than similar individuals who took a placebo.

However, women who were treated with the drug for a total 10 years didn't live longer than those who were given a placebo in the study.

Let them know that the little pill they're taking for, say, chronic back pain is actually a placebo, with no more medicine in it than an M&M?

In RATIFY (Randomized AML Trial In FLT3 in patients less than 60 Years old, NCT00651261), for which Stone was first author, median overall survival was 74.7 months with chemotherapy plus midostaurin and 25.6 months with chemotherapy plus placebo (P = 0.009).

And a group of 91 patients treated for 54 weeks saw slower cognitive declines than did those who received placebo infusions.

In an open - label extension trial, or OLE, the volunteers from a blinded trial are invited to come back for further doses, and every volunteer gets the active drug rather than some receiving drug and some the placebo — usually at the highest dose that was safely tried in the blinded trial.

In separate studies, patients who took either Requip or Mirapex were more likely to feel improvement over a 12 - week period than those who took placebos; both drugs have also been shown to be safe and effective for up to nine months.

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.

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.

Anti-depressant drugs were little, if any, more effective than placebo sugar pills for mild to moderate depression, the kind the vast majority of us are diagnosed with.

A 2002 review of the research on SAMe and depression conducted by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality concluded that SAMe was more effective than placebo at relieving the symptoms of depression and no better or worse than tricyclics.

A meta - analysis of five acupuncture studies conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, however, concluded that the evidence suggested that acupuncture was no more effective for smoking cessation than placebo.

A Spanish study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found people who took soluble fibre for a 16 - week period lost over four kilograms more than those who took a placebo, as well as improving overall cholesterol levels.

IBS sufferers who took the antihistamine ebastine for 12 weeks reported more relief from their symptoms than those taking a placebo, according to a small Belgian study published in 2016 in the journal Gastroenterology.

Zoloft (sertraline) and Remeron (mirtazapine), which are both available as generics, also generated more — and more severe — side effects than placebo, leading the researchers to suggest that these and other antidepressants should be reserved for dementia patients whose depression fails to respond to more conservative treatments, such as psychotherapy.

In one study, people who took a fermented papaya supplement for 14 weeks had less inflammation and a better LDL: HDL ratio than people who were given a placebo.

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

In one study, students who took 2.5 milligrams a day of mixed omega - 3 fatty acids for 12 weeks had less anxiety before an exam than students taking placebo.

The most recent Cochrane review on cranberries, from 2012, analyzed two dozen trials involving 4,473 participants and concluded that cranberries are no more effective for preventing U.T.I.s than placebos.

According to a double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized 2009 study out of Brazil, women with clinical abdominal obesity (waist circumference of more than 88 cm) who used coconut oil daily for 12 weeks — in conjunction with a balanced, low - calorie diet and moderate exercise program — enjoyed a statistically greater reduction in waist circumference than those women taking soybean oil.

Conclusion: The average for the 4 relevant clinical studies on humans showed weight loss of 3 pounds more than placebo.