Sentences with phrase «than placebo at»

Antidepressants such as Prozac and Celexa have been shown to be better than placebo at treating hot flashes, and doctors sometimes prescribe these and other antidepressants for hot flashes «off - label» (i.e., without the FDA's official OK).

As for its health benefits, peppermint oil was more effective than placebo at treating irritable bowel syndrome, a meta - analysis of the clinical literature found, and it was equally effective as pharmaceutical treatments.

While some review studies on the substance indicate St. John's Wort is better than a placebo at treating mild to moderate depression with fewer side effects than traditional antidepressants, other review studies have found no difference in effectiveness.

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.

Overall, they concluded, fish oil supplements were no more effective than placebo at preventing premature death or serious cardiovascular problems.

A study of 172 women suggests that HRT treatment is more effective than a placebo at preventing symptoms of depression from emerging during early menopause

Not exact matches

At one month, the probiotic group cried or fussed 49 minutes more than the placebo group.

The results show that the probiotic group fussed significantly more than the placebo group at all time points from day seven to one month.

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.

Both placebo and supplements were given once monthly — rather than daily at home — at the GPI to ensure consistent compliance.

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 primary endpoint of death and non-fatal heart attack at 30 days was no different between the two groups (7 percent in the aspirin group and 7.1 percent in the placebo group); however, major bleeding was significantly higher in aspirin - treated patients than in the placebo group (4.6 percent vs. 3.7 percent).

In absolute terms, the overall survival rate at five years was 11 % higher in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %).

As expected, at one - year follow - up, patients on the statin drug had lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels than those on placebo.

Also, there are alternatives that are better than placebos and not deceptive at all.

Researchers at the Chemical Abuse Centers in Boardman, Ohio, found that combining magnesium oxide with the drug verapamil helped control manic symptoms in patients better than a drug - placebo combination.

To test the nasal vaccine in adults, researchers at 13 hospitals nationwide, led by Kristin Nichol of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, gave it to more than 2800 people in fall 1997; 1400 others got a placebo.

The average spine BMD also increased more in the treatment group than placebo group at 12 months (3 percent vs. 1.1 percent) and at 24 months (4.5 percent vs. 0.7 percent).

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.

Both groups of participants assigned at random to varenicline achieved significantly higher abstinence rates at 12 weeks than those assigned to placebo, nicotine patch or bupropion.

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.

The team found that HRT was more effective at this than a placebo, and seemed to have the most effect in women in the early stages of menopause, and those experiencing other life stresses.

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.

10 of 19 (53 %) placentas and 11 of 19 (58 %) fetal heads from mice who received Moderna's Zika mRNA vaccine had viral RNA levels at the limit of detection of the assay, suggesting virtually complete protection, and the remainder had substantially lower levels than those detected in samples from mice in the placebo cohort.

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.

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.

«There have been numerous studies of the HCG diet, all of which demonstrate that it works no better than a placebo,» says George Blackburn, MD, PhD, associate director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School.

In a recent Indiana University study, patients taking fish - oil supplements were better at controlling exercise - triggered symptoms than people taking a placebo or just eating a normal diet were.

After three months, the LDL levels of those taking the active red yeast rice had declined 27 %, on average, compared to 6 % in the placebo group; at six months the decline in the active group was still more than 21 %.

The researchers found that those who drank the Montmorency tart cherry juice in the morning and at night were able to sleep more than an hour longer each night (averaging 84 minutes) compared to the placebo, and their sleep tended to be more efficient.

At the end of the intervention the rowers were 4.3 seconds faster than the placebo group in a 2,000 - meter race lasting over 6 minutes (22).

I think there's something there and I think maybe the best way to do it would be instead of looking at just a placebo, you'd almost have to go coffee versus coffee with fat to use your thing or just fat versus some form of placebo rather than just a fast, right?

of 22 studies found that subjects taking creatine averaged eight percent greater strength gains than those on a placebo, with an average 14 % increase in reps performed at a given percentage of the lifters» maxes.

Similarly, a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled study using a tea made from the traditional antispasmodic herbs chamomile, vervain, licorice, fennel and lemon balm was found to be more effective at reducing crying time in colicky infants than a placebo.8 In this study, approximately half a cup of tea was given during each colic episode up to a maximum of three times per day.

In same study on 36 test subjects with at least 3 years of weight training experience, subjects using the combination of creatine and whey gained 4 times the lean muscle than those using a placebo (8.8 vs. 2.0 lbs.).

People who ingested 900 mg of garlic powder daily had up to 18 % less arterial plaque at the end of the study than those taking a placebo.

A meta - analysis of 34 double blind, placebo - controlled, randomized studies that included 4,138 people, concluded that the probiotic strain, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, when given at the same time as antibiotics, had a greater than 60 % reduced risk of antibiotic - associated diarrhea.

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.

Subjects who were given the 300 mg / d CoQ10 supplement had a higher change in maximum velocity at the start and finish of the trial than the placebo group.

No group [veggie, meat eater placebo or creatine arm] did better in word recall at the end of study than at baseline!

In fact, in a 9 - week study conducted at a leading university, subjects using the creatine in Six Star 100 % Creatine gained, on average, more lean muscle than those using a placebo (6 lbs.

At that rate I could hardly see much more than a placebo effect using Himalayan salt.

In at least 12 placebo - controlled studies, children who were given different amounts of sugar reacted no differently than those who had none, report Dr. Vreeman and Dr. Carroll.

In feeding studies, dogs fed these formulas performed better at cognitive assessment tests than dogs fed a placebo diet.

Researchers for the American Chemical Society's weekly show, Reactions, took a look at systemic reviews and found there is very little evidence that cough syrup is effective at treating coughs, and that «carefully performed clinical trials show that these medications are generally no better than a placebo.»

The practice must have at least one study utilizing some form of control (e.g., untreated group, placebo group, matched wait list study) establishing the practice's benefit over the placebo, or found it to be comparable to or better than an appropriate comparison practice.