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A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
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Examples of placebo in a Sentence
A 1998 study of 29,133 male smokers in Finland showed 32% less cases of prostate cancer and 40% less deaths from prostate cancer among men who took vitamin E to prevent lung cancer compared to men who took a placebo.
Research results on the efficacy of St. John's wort have been inconsistent, with some studies finding the herb to be as effective as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and others finding it no more effective than a placebo.
The control group took a placebo, while the experimental subjects took the drug that was being tested.
Dry mouth, transient rise of serum alanine aminotransferase values and sleeping disorders have been reported more frequently than in patients receiving placebo.
Systematic review The review used an extensive search strategy for randomized double blind studies comparing antidepressants with placebo, or with other drug treatments.
These were randomized to 100 mg aspirin every second day, or placebo.
The fifth Placebo album ' meds ' is finally here.
These patients were then compared with ten patients who had received the placebo.
One German study found that a cream made with an extract of St. John's wort relieved the symptoms of AD better than a placebo, but the herbal preparation had not as of 2004 been compared to a standard corticosteroid cream.
Subjects who took the supplement reported an overall drop in their carb cravings compared to the placebo group.
Allocation of the oral amoxicillin and placebo was reported as being double blind.
Pneumocystis carinii was identified by immunofluorescence in only one (placebo) of 73 nasopharyngeal aspirates from children with pneumonia.
Results for topical azoles Twelve trials with more than 10 patients in both treatment groups compared azoles with placebo (Figure 1 ).
Two RCTs, however, clearly showed that chiropractic is not useful beyond a placebo effect for asthma 12,13.
Those who were given codeine only needed slightly higher levels of capsaicin than those given the placebo to cause a cough.
Out a placebo shows descriptive DDD of the number out-of-pocket costs for.
Placebo comparisons Placebo was usually sham short wave diathermy, and patients were a mixture of acute and chronic.
In this trial, the 50 mg dosage cut migraine frequency by 50 percent compared to 10 percent in the placebo group.
So we went back to a very elemental side of Placebo.
Trabio failed to meet the primary endpoint of improving the outcome of surgery for glaucoma compared to placebo.
Neither treatment with placebo nor with RSG changed exercise tolerance and skeletal muscle energetics.
In human healthy volunteers, low doses of the extracts administered in a double-blind design against placebo increased reaction time end time-lapse estimation.
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There were no significant differences between those taking ginkgo and those taking placebo on any of the objective or subjective measures.
They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely Goth leanings.
Overall, 180 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee were randomly assigned to receive either arthroscopic debridement, arthroscopic lavage or placebo surgery.
This study was a double blind, placebo -controlled, multi-centre trial in 449 patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus.
Neuroleptics are superior to placebo in the treatment of acute mania i.
A huge Placebo banner is waved above us as the band started with their latest material from their new album meds.
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Findings Data on pregnancy outcome were available for 244 women in the clindamycin group and for 241 women in the placebo group.
Her argument may one day give the phrase ' triggering the placebo effect ' a place in popular parlance.
The study is a randomized, placebo -controlled trial with 108 patients over 12 sites.
At this moment there is no single homeopathic remedy that has shown a specific effect in a double blind randomized placebo controlled trial.
In all four trials the control group was given placebo.
One phase was supplemented with sodium tablets and the other with matched placebo.
In a double-blind, placebo controlled study, patients were treated with magnets applied to the skin.
Results from a 2 year double blind placebo controlled trial.
Patients randomized to receive adefovir 60mg daily or matching placebo.
The treatment was 300 mg of enteric-coated aspirin or identical placebo, one tablet daily.
One study used a sham nCPAP in the control arm, allowing blinding, and the others used an oral placebo.
The responses seen with all dosages studied are superior to the responses seen with placebo and an optimized background regimen.
In addition, subjects who took selenium cleared the virus from their bodies faster than the placebo subjects.
The patients ' mental state was not improved in either the placebo or the treatment group after 12 weeks.
Some of the placebo suicides took place while patients were withdrawing from an older drug.
Patients were treated with either placebo or oral glucosamine sulfate 500 mg t.i.d. for 4 weeks, with weekly, with weekly clinic visits.
They were either given 20 mg tamoxifen daily for five years or a placebo.
Women with low testosterone levels who had lost on average 18 per cent of their body weight were offered testosterone patches or placebo.
The level of capsaicin needed to cause coughing was about one third higher in the volunteers who had been given theobromine compared with placebo.
They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely goth leanings.