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BMJ, 2008 Pittrof and Rubinstein make the important point that the “placebo effect” is actually an effect—people often do get better on placebo.1 However, most, if not all, of the evidence for placebo effects comes from studies where patients expected to have a reasonable chance (generally 0.5) of receiving the active treatment.
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Introduction: Open-label placebos have been proposed as way of using long recognized analgesic placebo effects in an ethical manner. Recent evidence shows efficacy of open-label placebos for clinical conditions, but there is need for more research on ...
Dilan Sezer +10 more
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BMC Medicine, 2023 Background Overtreatment poses a challenge to healthcare systems due to harmful consequences of avoidable side-effects and costs. This study presents the first account for examining the feasibility of placebo use for reducing overtreatment in primary ...
E. M. Krockow +4 more
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Randomized placebo-controlled cross-over designs in clinical trials : a gold-standard to be reassessed [PDF]
, 2012 Placebo effects are well-known phenomena in medicine and biology. In fact, placebos are used as control conditions in randomized cross-over clinical trials to validate new treatments.
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The Scientific World Journal, 2000 Nature and Science ran completely different news line-ups this week. But their lead stories agreed on one thing: patients matter. Nature led with a story about a group of patients who will share in a patent after giving blood and tissue samples to scientists.
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Advanced Chinese Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract The gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in maintaining host metabolic homeostasis and overall physiological functions. Shenling Baizhu San (SLBZS), a time‐honored classical prescription for tonifying Qi, strengthening the spleen, removing dampness, and arresting diarrhea, has shown broad clinical efficacy in digestive disorders.
Jinlan Di, Xiaochun Zhang
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Placebos are known to yield significant effects in many conditions. We examined deceptive and open-label placebo effects on guilt, which is important for self-regulation and a symptom of mental disorders.
Dilan Sezer, Cosima Locher, Jens Gaab
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Long‐Term Evaluation of Givinostat in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and Natural History Comparisons
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This ongoing, open‐label extension study is evaluating the long‐term safety, tolerability, and efficacy of givinostat, a Class I and II histone deacetylase inhibitor, in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Methods The recruited patients completed one of two prior clinical studies (one Phase 2 and one Phase 3 [EPIDYS ...
Craig M. McDonald +74 more
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Journal of International Clinical Dental Research Organization, 2017 This study was conducted to analyze the changes in gingival health in patients treated with probiotic containing mouth rinse. Thirty volunteers between 20 and 35 years were randomly divided into two groups.
Vikas Jindal +5 more
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