Sentences with phrase «work as placebos»

Some may work as placebos, which is fine, some may have an active ingredient.

Some may work as placebos, which is fine; some may not work at all; some may have one or more active ingredients.

Although the actual usefulness is debated, they often work as placebo.

Not exact matches

One study even goes so far as to say that the herbs can work, but only as a placebo effect.

If the tea is only food grade, it isn't strong enough to work as a medicine, therefore it is a placebo and not helping either.

«I'm on the record as saying I absolutely do not believe in the explanations for homeopathy and how it quote unquote works,» she says, before adding: «But I do believe in the placebo effect and it's possible that if a placebo is the best treatment for a lower back pain, for example, then that's what the evidence shows and in a lot of these areas there hasn't been enough research done to really tell that.

The placebo effect, also known as non-specific effects and the subject - expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work.

As expected, the placebo worked.

For some medical complaints, open - label placebos work just as well as deceptive ones.

Researchers noted that while pregabalin works in the same way as gabapentin — both are often used interchangeably in clinical care — this review found gabapentin was not more effective than placebo.

Online reviewers portray these medications as working three to six times better than they do in clinical trials that randomly assign drugs or placebos to broad samples of volunteers, he says.

Evidence supporting this view comes from medical trials that show placebo drugs may work as well as pharmaceuticals in providing relief.

But in the last five years or so, researchers have shown that dispensing pills that people know are placebos can still alleviate symptoms of IBS (as they did for Linda) and depression, as long as the researchers explain that dummy pills have worked for patients in the past.

In another example of placebos and meds interacting in curious ways, one study found that when patients took a migraine drug that was labeled «placebo,» it worked half as well as it did for patients who took the same drug, properly labeled.

«There's no research to show that this type of treatment works — several studies have shown that people taking long - term antibiotic for Lyme disease to treat lingering symptoms fare the same as those who take placebo,» states Chris Ohl, MD, an infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

While we understand that anti-depressant medications such as selective serotonin and selective serotonin and norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs and SNRIs) work better than placebo (in about 40 - 60 % of cases), scientists don't know for certain why they have an affect.

Other people believe visualisation programmes the muscles into working at their most efficient level and still others think that the placebo effect makes us try harder as we assume success is guaranteed.

Keep in mind that when the FDA approves a drug, no one has to explain or demonstrate exactly how it works, only that it is statistically more effective than a placebo and that it doesn't come with significant health problems as a result of using it.

In some studies, the placebo treatment works as well or even better than the real treatment.

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

First, randomized trials can be an enormous undertaking; testing the effects of a job - training program or a new work incentive in welfare is not the same as giving one set of patients a new drug and another set a placebo.

Of course, some could say that as long as it works, it doesn't matter if it's a placebo effect, but that doesn't mean the studies are scientifically rigorous.

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.