Anemic children with cancer benefit from erythropoietin
...domly assigned patients to receive either EPO or a placebo (inactive "drug") intravenously, and the first to measure the effect of EPO on quality of life in children, according to Bassem Razzouk, M.D., an associate member of the Department of Oncology at St. Jude. Razzouk is the lead author of a report on th...Study shows new drug helps elderly with insomnia
...s." The study compared eszopiclone with an inert placebo in patients 64 to 86 years old over a two-week period and used both measurements made in sleep laboratories and patients' own reports of their sleep activity during the study. The 136 patients in the eszopiclone group reported greater quality of s...Complementary and alternative therapies show little benefit in treating menopause symptoms
...elated symptoms. Many of the studies had a large placebo effect, meaning that even women who were not assig...eported improvement in their symptoms. "The large placebo effect is consistent with preexisting work of menopausal hormonal therapies," the authors write. "A...Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women
...dose of either estradiol, a form of estrogen, or a placebo through a skin patch for two years. The women were given a battery of standardized cognitive tests and a test of health-related quality of life at the beginning of the study, after one year, and after two years. At the end of the study, there was ...Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
...g or life satisfaction compared with those given a placebo at the same test session. A majority said their mo...t the expectations of getting the test drug or the placebo would influence subjects' perceptions. To lessen the former, each subject met several times, befo...Studies indicate medication can be an effective therapy for smoking cessation
...ers quit and abstain from smoking when compared to placebo and the smoking cessation medication bupropion, ac...valuated the efficacy of varenicline compared with placebo and sustained-release (SR) bupropion in generally healthy adult smokers. Varenicline is a non-nicoti...Beta-agonist inhalers more than double death rate in COPD patients, analysis shows
...tory causes, while 12 of 3,845 participants in the placebo group died of respiratory ailments. When patients ...espiratory deaths out of 1,084 participants in the placebo group....Trouble putting the kids to sleep?
...und that the drug appeared to perform worse than a placebo agent. Only 1 out of 22 children showed improvemen...r children throughout the night. Treatment with a placebo agent or diphenhydramine occurred during one week, and the days before and after treatment were reco...Commonly recommended sedative does not improve infant sleep
...y assigned to receive 100 mL of diphenhydramine or placebo (inactive medication) in a cherry-flavored liquid ...e of one to 10. Three of 22 participants in the placebo group and one of 22 participants in the diphenhydramine group had fewer nighttime awakenings during ...Gabapentin cools hot flashes as well as estrogen
...gainst a placebo. Although it showed a substantial placebo effect similar to other menopause studies women t...eceived gabapentin at 2,400 mg per day and a daily placebo or fake estrogen pill; 20 received estrogen in the form of Premarin at 0.625 mg per day and a fake g...Taking medicine regularly (even placebo) is good for you
...the observed association between good adherence to placebo and lower mortality also supports the existence of the healthy adherer effect, whereby adherence to drug therapy may be a surrogate marker for overall healthy behaviour." In an accompanying commentary, US researcher Betty Chewning suggests that it...REVLIMID(R) granted approval by FDA for treatment of multiple myeloma
... REVLIMID (lenalidomide)/dexamethasone compared to placebo /dexamethasone. "The FDA approval of REVLIMID offers a new oral therapeutic option to this particular group of patients with multiple myeloma," said Graham Burton, M.D., SVP, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance for Celgene. REVLIMID will be ...Shire's DAYTRANA, first patch medication for ADHD in children, now available in pharmacies
...strated statistically significant improvement over placebo on the measures tested. Behavior, which was measu...children's overall symptoms of ADHD, compared to a placebo (P In both the phase II and phase III studies, DAYTRANA was generally well tolerated during both...Abuse liability study results of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (NRP104) presented at CPDD
...bility" of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate compared to placebo and two active controls (d-amphetamine sulfate 40 ...timulant abuse. In this double-blind, randomized, placebo and active cross-over study, lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (50 mg and 100 mg) produced liking effects ...Study shows prostate cancer vaccine linked to longer survival
...ival at 36 months when compared to patients in the placebo group. The study is reported in the July 1, 20...RPC received three transfusions of sipuleucel-T or placebo every two weeks. Of this group, 115 patients had progressive disease at the time of data analysis an...Cognitive behavioral therapy appears more effective than sleep medication for treating insomnia
...dication (7.5 mg zopiclone each night; n = 16), or placebo medication (n = 12). All treatment duration was 6 ...BT group improved significantly more than both the placebo group at 6 weeks and the zopiclone group at both 6 weeks and 6 months. The zopiclone group did not d...Preventive treatment reduces risk of malaria in infants
...d 9 months of age were compared with those given a placebo at the same intervals. Dr. Menendez and colleagues found that giving infants SP was safe and well tolerated, and reduced the incidence of hospital admissions by one fifth. According to editorialists Feiko O. ter Kuile, MD, PhD, of the Liverpool ...New study adds weight to argument for steroid injections in patients with hip osteoarthritis
...aksymowych, is the first randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial showing significant effectiveness...ly guided IA injection and were randomly allocated placebo (2 ml of normal saline) or 40 mg of the treatment (triamcinolone hexacetonide). Assessments were per...HAQ responsiveness is inversely associated with mean duration of RA in clinical trials
...ed insufficient discrimination of biologicals from placebo with respect to the HAQ. "The results of this rese... discriminate this signal from responses seen with placebo treatment" concluded Dr. Daniel Aletaha, Department of Rheumatology, Vienna Medical University, Wien......post-treatment point compared to 48 percent of the placebo group. In addition, 42 percent of the TMS-treated ...y good or excellent compared to 26 percent for the placebo group. These are very encouraging results." It was previously believed that migraine headaches star...