Response to anti-HIV therapy improved if treatment begins six months after preventive regimen
...iginally had been randomized to receive nevirapine placebo in the original study. In the current study, 60 w...s after receiving either single dose nevirapine or placebo during labor. Of the women in the nevirapine group, 41.7 percent still had detectable HIV levels in...UGA study finds that caffeine cuts post-workout pain by nearly 50 percent
...soreness, the volunteers took either caffeine or a placebo and performed two different quadriceps (thigh) exe...had a 48 percent reduction in pain compared to the placebo group, while those that took caffeine before the sub-maximal test reported a 26 percent reduction in...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
...etween the ages of 18 and 60. Fifteen will receive placebo injections and 30 will receive three injections of the investigational vaccine over 2 months and will be followed for 1 year. Volunteers will not be exposed to influenza virus. The vaccine contains no infectious material, and the virus was not pres...Medication does not appear to offer benefit for certain heart attack patients undergoing PCI
...s, of whom 2,885 were randomly assigned to receive placebo and 2,860 to receive pexelizumab, prior to PCI fol...difference in the rate of death at 30 days between placebo and pexelizumab treated patients, i.e., each experiencing a low death rate of 3.92 percent and 4.06 ...No benefit for liver cancer patients from long-acting octreotide
...2 percent for patients in the control group. The placebo group reported 169 side effects, compared to 161 r...CC patients treated with octreotide in contrast to placebo treated patients." Placebo effects are observed whenever the patient and the clinician perceive a ...Prenatal multivitamins for undernourished women may reduce risk of low birth weight
... one of the women were randomly assigned to take a placebo tablet containing only calcium, and the other 99 r..., compared with 8.7 kilograms (19.2 pounds) in the placebo group. Of the 200 babies born, 146 were included in the analysis of birth size and 170 (88 in the m...Women on osteoporosis drug can discontinue use with no risk
... FIT and afterwards, were re-randomized to receive placebo or alendronate at 5 mg or 10 mg daily. According to Black, findings showed that "women randomized to continue taking alendronate did maintain a higher BMD at the hip and spine than those randomized to placebo. For those who stopped, there was a ...Pain relief effectiveness down to mind-set?
... of Manchester suggests that people's responses to placebo or 'dummy' pain relief varies according to their w...son Watson said: "Any medical treatment involves a placebo element; the psychological suggestion that it is going to work. So we theorised that a proportion of...Mass. General leading international trial of novel breast cancer drug
...to receive a daily oral dose of either Tykerb or a placebo for up to one year. The TEACH study will be the first to investigate the use of a dual ErbB1 and ErbB2 inhibitor as an adjuvant treatment for women with HER2-positive breast cancer, who are at a high risk of their disease recurring, says Goss. ...Folic acid supplementation does not appear to reduce risk of cardiovascular diseases
...at compared folic acid supplementation with either placebo or usual care for a minimum duration of 6 months and with clinical cardiovascular disease events reported as an end point. The researchers found that in comparing the folic acid supplementation groups with the controls groups, the total proportion...Mayo Clinic -- Collaborating to move treatment research forward
...f thalidomide plus dexamethasone (Thal/Dex) versus placebo plus dexamethasone (placebo/Dex). The Thal/Dex combination resulted in a significantly higher response rate (63 percent) compared to placebo/Dex (46 percent). A tumor load reduction (lessening of cancerous cells) of 90 percent or greater was seen in ...Rochester study rolls out RU-486 to treat uterine fibroids
... daily, and 20 women received an identical looking placebo pill daily, for six months. Doctors sought to eval...onths, compared to a 41-percent improvement in the placebo group. Symptoms decreased in both groups, but severity was significantly less in the mifepristone gr...Does Omega 3 protect against ADHD?
...etary supplements of either omega-3 fatty acids or placebo (supplements with no active ingredient). The childrens parents and teachers will also participate, monitoring and rating the childrens behaviour....Common PTSD drug is no more effective than placebo
...the effects of guanfacine and an identical looking placebo pill on 63 male and female veterans at four VA medical centers in California and Hawaii. Twenty-nine participants were randomly assigned to take weekly doses of the drug, and 34 were assigned the placebo, for eight weeks. At the end of the study, t...Drug derived from snake venom not effective if given late in the treatment of stroke
...m Europe, Australia, and Israel, ancrod (604) or a placebo (618). They found that functional ability was much... more haemorrhages in the ancrod group than in the placebo group. Mortality at 3 months was higher in the ancrod group than in the placebo group but at 12 mont...Hormone replacement therapy may improve trip down memory lane
...study, ages 50-60, were given hormone therapy or a placebo for four weeks, followed by a month with no medica...s critical in memory tasks, compared with those on placebo (a pill with no medicinal value). The researchers used images from functional MRI, or fMRI, to compa...Columbia study examines ADHD's role in smoking
...ive either methylphenidate or an identical-looking placebo or sugar pill. All participants will receive the nicotine patch and 11 weeks of behavioral counseling. Reimbursement for time and travel will be offered to research participants. ...Drug treats 'water intoxication' faster, more effectively
...ncentrations at day 4 and day 30 than those in the placebo group. During the week after discontinuing the tolvaptan, hyponatremia recurred in patients. SALT-1 and SALT-2 were identical prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled efficacy studies. SALT-1 was conducted at 42 sites ...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, November 2006
...ow or high dose, 13-cis retinoic acid (13-cRA), or placebo for 6 months followed by a 3-month crossover period. At the end of 6 months, no treatment was associated with an overall improvement in pulmonary function, CT density mask score, or health-related quality of life (HRQL). However, time- and dose-...Enbrel provides sustained clinical improvements for ankylosing spondylitis for up to 3 years
...linical improvements through 24 weeks, compared to placebo (n=139). At 12 weeks, the ASAS 20 response was ac...BREL, compared to 27 percent of patients receiving placebo (p...