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“Placebo: a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder” – Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary Everyone has heard of placebos, but have we ever wondered ...
Ismawi, Hidayatul Radziah
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Objective Routine liver enzyme monitoring is advocated while on allopurinol but supporting guidance is lacking. We assessed the incidence and factors associated with elevated liver enzymes in gout patients commenced on allopurinol. Methods 150 patients with gout and normal baseline serum aminotransferases initiated on allopurinol were followed ...
May Shuen Tang +4 more
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Constructing the placebo effect in the placebo wars: What is the way ahead?
The concept of placebo has had a long history in medicine, and has evolved over time with the introduction of randomized controlled trials for health treatments, the increasing research done around the psychotherapies, the development of complementary ...
Ridge, Damien T., Foot, D.
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Mirroring everyday clinical practice in clinical trial design: a new concept to improve the external validity of randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials in the pharmacological treatment of major depression [PDF]
Background: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials constitute the gold standard in clinical research when testing the efficacy of new psychopharmacological interventions in the treatment of major depression.
Berger Michael +29 more
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Mitochondria‐targeted nanotherapies emerge as a promising strategy for combating aging‐associated neurodegenerative disorders (NDs) by restoring mitochondrial function, reducing oxidative stress, and improving neuronal survival. Recent advances in nanotechnology, therapeutic delivery, and translational research are highlighted, providing insights into ...
Dnyandev G. Gadhave +8 more
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If a physician worries that a treatment will benefit the patient through the placebo effect, should he perform it?
C Ronald, MacKenzie +2 more
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Efficacy of modern antipsychotics in placebo-controlled trials in bipolar depression: a meta-analysis – results to be interpreted with caution [PDF]
Randomized, controlled trials have demonstrated efficacy for second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of acute mania in bipolar disorder. Despite depression being considered the hallmark of bipolar disorder, there are no published systematic ...
Goikolea, José Manuel +7 more
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Using pixel‐aware digital light processing, the authors created high‐resolution, dissolvable microneedles from a PEGDA/VP matrix. These microneedles encapsulate curcumin and 5‐fluorouracil and dissolve in the skin, co‐delivering drugs directly to tumours.
Rutuja N. Meshram, Dimitrios A. Lamprou
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Andersen et al (1) recently published data from a study on brief daily exercise and headache. They reported that a 10-week intervention with 2 minutes of daily exercise using an elastic tube caused a decrease in headache frequency from 1.4 to 0.9 days ...
Johan H Andersen, Sigurd Mikkelsen
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Effect of vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure:a systematic review and meta-analysis incorporating individual patient data [PDF]
Importance Low levels of vitamin D are associated with elevated blood pressure (BP) and future cardiovascular events. Whether vitamin D supplementation reduces BP and which patient characteristics predict a response remain unclear.Objective To ...
Gepner, Adam D. +31 more
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