Antioxidants show no clear benefit against cardiovascular events, death in high-risk women
...ake 500 milligrams of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) or placebo every day; 600 international units of vitamin E or placebo every other day; and 50 milligrams of beta carotene or placebo every other day. Participants were fo...DNA vaccine against multiple sclerosis appears safe, potentially beneficial
... participants received intramuscular injections of placebo or BHT-3009 (in doses of .5 milligrams, 1.5 millig...fter 13 weeks, participants who initially received placebo received four injections of BHT-3009. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other safety evaluation...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
...ctive than intravenous saline, which was used as a placebo in another group of study participants. Cocaine abuse in the U.S. is widespread, with nearly 35 million Americans reporting having ever tried cocaine and an estimated 7.3 million users, including 15 percent of young adults ages 18 to 25, according to...ADHD appears to be associated with depressed dopamine activity in the brain
...s. Scans were performed twice, after injections of placebo and of methylphenidate; the participants did not know which drug they had received. Participants also were asked to report the severity of their ADHD symptoms, whether they could detect the drug, if they liked or disliked it, and if it made them feel...Trial stops after stroke and mortality significantly reduced by blood
...which began in 2001.Patients were given either the placebo or a low dose diuretic(indapamide 1.5mg SR), and an additional ACE inhibitor (perindopril), intablet form once a day. Emeritus Professor Chris Bulpitt, HYVET Principal Investigator from theCare of the Elderly Department at Imperial College London, ...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...were randomized to receive the drug pravastatin or placebo for two years. Those younger than 14 received 20 ...in-treated group continued taking the drug and the placebo group switched to pravastatin. To assess the drugs effectiveness, the team used ultrasound to measu...Sucampo Pharmaceuticals submits supplemental new drug application for Lubiprostone to treat IBS-C
...biprostone 8 mcg taken twice daily (783 adults) or placebo (388 adults) over a 12-week period. In both trial...tistically significant compared to those receiving placebo (P=0.001). The long-term extension trial demonstrated that the efficacy of lubiprostone, establishe...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...e IB or II NSCLC to receive either MAGE-A3 ASCI or placebo as adjuvant therapy. All patients participating in...; in comparison to 26 of the 60 patients receiving placebo (43.3%). Using a Cox regression model to adjust for the fact that patients in the different arms wer...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...ed to receive 1 mg/day of folic acid (n = 516) or placebo (n = 505), and were separately randomized to recei...ccurred in 42.4 percent of the participants in the placebo group and 44.1 percent of the participants in the folic acid group. In the second follow-up interval...Study shows Diachrome improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes
...provements in glycemic control (A1C) compared with placebo (an absolute decrease of 0.54%). The greatest imp...for the treatment group (-0.54%) compared with the placebo group (-0.34%). The highest risk patients (baseline A1C equal to or greater than 10%) showed an eve...Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
...rug while the other half took an identical looking placebo pill. The women who took modafinil for all eight weeks reported major improvements in memory, concentration and learning. I am very enthusiastic about the potential weve demonstrated, said Sadhna Kohli, Ph.D., M.P.H., lead author of the study and a...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...reported fewer side effects than those receiving a placebo tablet, the researchers say. Many men undergoing...nto four groups. Over 28 days, one group was given placebo pills, another received a 300 mg/d (milligrams a day) tablet of gabapentin, a third group received a...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
...Committee (IDMC) recommended that randomization to placebo for patients with stable disease should be discontinued. The study continued as an open-label, single-arm study with all patients receiving pazopanib. The preliminary week 12 response rate for all 225 patients was 27%. In addition, stable disease...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...Committee (IDMC) recommended that randomization to placebo for patients with stable disease should be discontinued. The study continued as an open-label, single-arm study with all patients receiving pazopanib. The preliminary week 12 response rate for all 225 patients was 27%. In addition, stable disease...Herb shows potential to reduce cancer-related fatigue
...Of the four treatment arms, patients receiving the placebo and the lowest dose of ginseng reported very littl...ing at a specific dose of Wisconsin ginseng versus placebo and trying to better refine the results, in hopes of a confirming a new treatment option for cancer-...OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
...for one booster infusion of either sipuleucel-T or placebo in accordance with the treatment arm to which they...roximately 10- to 100-fold higher than measured in placebo arm patients. Sipuleucel-T is manufactured by Dendreon Corporation. An FDA advisory committee rec...Radium-223: An alternative treatment for prostate cancer
... those receiving radium 223 (26 weeks) compared to placebo (eight weeks). The median survival time for radium-223 patients was 41% longer than those receiving placebo (65.3 weeks vs 46.4 weeks respectively); and no Radium-223 patients stopped treatment due to treatme...International studies show high efficacy for HPV vaccine
...re randomly assigned to receive the HPV vaccine or placebo and followed for an average of three years. Researchers found that the prophylactic administration of the vaccine was highly effective in preventing pre-malignant changes of the cervix, also known as cervical dysplasia. "This is a much larger com......e given thyroxine and compared with those taking a placebo or dummy medication. Dr Salman Razvi and Dr Jolanta Weaver of Newcastle University's School of Clinical Medical Sciences carried out a pivotal crossover study. They assessed common heart disease risk factors such as the level of LDL, or "bad", cho......ed, "this was a safety trial and therefore was not placebo controlled, so we can't be absolutely sure yet if ...ses of G-SCF with the remainder receiving a saline placebo as a control. After 12weeks, heart function will again be checked using an MRI and the treatments of...