Drug does not reduce risk of death for heart attack patients with refractory shock
...ts who received tilarginine and those who received placebo (48 percent vs. 42 percent mortality). At 6 months...tilarginine and 59 percent of patients assigned to placebo had died. Tilarginine had no effect on the 30-day rates of recurrent myocardial reinfarction or hear...Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
...t two hours in response to Tilarginine compared to placebo (12 vs. 7 mmHg average rise in SBP). However, the...ortality rates among those treated with TAI versus placebo (48% vs. 42%, risk ratio=1.14). At six months there were similar outcomes in those in the TAI and...Energy supplement under study for Parkinson's disease
...of five years, patients on creatine will look like placebo patients at four years, says Buff Dill, MCG study ...rks. They are willing to take the risk of being on placebo for the cause of science and to learn more about the disease, he says, noting the altruistic nature ...LIALDA -- the first oral once-daily mesalamine for ulcerative colitis -- now available
...ts. "In clinical trials, LIALDA was superior to placebo in inducing remission. Additionally, LIALDA's conv...twice daily and 4.8 g/day given once daily against placebo in 262 patients. At eight weeks, both doses demonstrated superiority over placebo in the induction o...UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair
...ician knows if he received his own stem cells or a placebo substance. This trial is the first human Phase II ...l catheter system to deliver either CD34+ cells or placebo into areas of the heart that have poor blood flow. Subjects are randomly selected to receive either ...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
...ng those taking beta carotene and 170 cases in the placebo group. According to the authors, these findings, together with other recent discoveries, will help in "clarifying the effects of individual antioxidant supplements and other nutrient combinations and should help endure rational clinical and public h...News briefs from the journal Chest, March 2007
...onths, there was no significant difference between placebo and ICS in modifying FEV1 decline. This study appears in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. Bronchodilators Show No Benefit in Bronchoscopy Patients A new study suggests that patien...Should NICE evaluate complementary medicine?
...have found no good evidence for anything more than placebo effects. And it is not necessary to take the word of sceptics about the lack of evidence. The more honest advocates of complementary and alternative medicine admit it themselves, he adds. None of this is intended to deny the important role of sup...Both minor and major ECG abnormalities linked with increased risk of cardiovascular events in women
... new ECG findings with CHD and CVD outcomes in the placebo and hormonal treatment groups of the Women's Healt...ong women taking hormone therapy compared with the placebo group. The sample analyzed included 14,749 postmenopausal asymptomatic women with intact uterus wh...Antidepressants improve post-stroke 'thinking outside the box'
...depressant nortriptyline (Aventyl or Pamelor) or a placebo (inactive substance). Their executive functions ...ferences were found between the antidepressant and placebo groups at the end of treatment. However, 21 months after the treatment ended, the placebo group show...The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
...verweight men and women were given either CLA or a placebo for one year. On average the CLA group lost 5 poun...1995 Italian researchers gave either chitosan or a placebo to 150 people, who were on a 1,000-calorie-a-day diet for 4 weeks. Those on the placebo lost 4% of t...Slow-release morphine reduces level of intractable cough
... the use of slow-release morphine sulfate versus a placebo on their cough. Each phase lasted four weeks. Morphine, derived from opium, is used in medicine as an analgesic, light anesthetic or a sedative. Although opiates have been long advocated for the suppression of cough, there are few trial data to sup...Drug reduces unscheduled trips to doctor for childhood asthma attacks
...ages 2 to 14, who were given either montelukast or placebo by their parents when needed for one year. All of ...its for their illness, as compared with 228 in the placebo group. "Symptoms were reduced by 14 percent, nights awakened by 8.6 percent, days off from school ...Garlic hope in infection fight
...rlic capsules, while the other half will receive a placebo (olive oil capsules) over a two month period. At the beginning and end of the study, researchers will measure the levels of germs in patients' sputum samples, the patients' lung function and weight will be monitored and blood tests carried out to ens...Effectiveness of over-the-counter decongestant questioned in new study
...e of the drug appears to be no more effective than placebo and suggests that the FDA should require additional studies to prove the drug's safety and efficacy. Dr. Leslie Hendeles, one of the study's authors, appeared on today's broadcast of Good Morning America to discuss the efficacy of OTC decongestants. ...The problem with treating spondylarthritis with anti-TNF strategies
... however, etanercept proved no more effective than placebo at inhibiting new cartilage or bone formation or ankylosis. What's more, TNF-positive cells were observed in the joint capsule, adjacent blood vessels and in new cartilage. "Our observations strengthen our hypothesis that new bone format...Topical anaesthetic spray delays ejaculation by five times as long says new study
...Meanwhile the control group, who were prescribed a placebo (dummy) spray, increased their penetration to ejac... 22.5mg of lidocaine and 7.5mg of prilocaine. The placebo group were issued with an identical container that delivered a spray without any active ingredients....Selenium supplements may contribute to reduced HIV viral load
...iated, 174 (91 in the selenium group and 83 in the placebo group) completed the nine-month study assessment. "The intervention resulted in no adverse events related to the study supplement," the authors write. The two groups had similar selenium levels at the beginning of the study, but after nine months o...Study finds differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
...that a person becomes diabetic, compared to either placebo (inactive sugar-pills) or calcium channel blockers...of each class of antihypertensive drugs, including placebo (inactive sugar-pills), to assess the chance that a person would develop diabetes during about 5 yea...Bayer and Onyx announce pivotal Nexavar kidney cancer study published in NEJM
...zed one-to-one to receive either 400 mg Nexavar or placebo orally twice a day in this randomized, multi-natio...avar compared to 2.8 months for patients receiving placebo (p In May 2005, due to the clinical and statistical significance of the PFS data, the companies u...