Sentences with phrase «than pill placebo»

Our study design diverged from the TDCRP in offering SP rather than pill placebo plus clinical management as its presumed least active treatment.

Not exact matches

In clinical trials, women taking the pink pill reported having about one more sexually satisfying experience per month than those taking a placebo.

Scientists showed placebo pill ingestion is associated with a strong analgesia effect, with more than half of the patients reporting significant pain relief.

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.

Story number 3: Study subjects who wash down a placebo pill with a strange tasting drink got more of a placebo effect than those who took the pill with plain water.

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.

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.

At a meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research last October, his team reported that girls receiving the upper dose in that trial grew more and denser bone than did girls who got placebo pills.

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.

The trial reported that the pills did not prevent broken bones any more than placebos did and, moreover, that they increased the risk of kidney stones by 17 percent.

When the data were properly analyzed, they showed that children given Paxil were actually two times more likely to experience suicidal thinking and behavior than children given a placebo, or sugar pill.

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?

The reduction in pain ratings was substantially greater than those seen in similar studies involving placebo pills, hypnosis, and even morphine and other painkilling drugs, he adds.

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.

In a 2006 government - sponsored analysis, benzodiazepines caused patients to fall asleep 10 minutes faster and sleep 32 minutes longer than those who took placebo pills.

After three months, however, the women who'd been taking the active pills estimated their overall quality of life to be lower than those who'd been taking placebos.

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.

Another review study published in 2012 found that CLA caused about 3 lbs (1.3 kg) more weight loss than placebo, a dummy pill (32).

In a study by the University of Cambridge, subjects who took a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement lost more weight than those who took a placebo pill.

Reported at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm recently — a review of common «slimming supplements» versus placebo, and not one worked better than the sugar pills.

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

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

Oral glucosamine supplements are not regulated by the FDA the way that drugs are and so it is very important to purchase them from a reputable source, the best being a veterinary office, they are very safe and many owners do notice significant improvement however in scientific studies they can be difficult to prove much more benefit than a placebo (sugar pill).

AU further anticipates that plaintiffs who have experienced an unwanted pregnancy may bring claims against Qualitest for «wrongful pregnancy,» although such plaintiffs may face issues of comparative negligence for failing to notice that the placebo pills are a different color than the hormone - producing pills.

People who took supplements soon after they fell ill were sick for one day less than those who took a placebo pill.