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Placebo Defined
A chemically inactive substance given in place of a drug to test how much of a drug's effectiveness can be attributed to a patient's expectations that the drug will have a positive effect
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S. African health minister strikes new tone on AIDS
Published October 15, 2008, 10:42 am, PlanetOut
South Africa's new health minister broke dramatically Monday from a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine.
More effective treatment identified for common childhood vision disorder
Published October 15, 2008, 8:53 am, PhysOrg
Scientists have found a more effective treatment for a common childhood eye muscle coordination problem called convergence insufficiency (CI). For words on a page to appear in focus a child's eyes must turn inward, or converge. In CI, the eyes do not converge easily, and as a result, additional muscular effort must be used to make the eyes turn in.
B vitamins fail in Alzheimer's disease study
Published October 15, 2008, 7:17 am, Canada.com
High doses of B vitamins failed to slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, dashing the hopes for a new weapon against the fatal, mind-robbing ailment, U.S. researchers say.
Tibotec Begins Enrollment for Phase III Study of Telaprevir
Published October 15, 2008, 6:35 am, Newswise
Tibotec BVBA announced today that it has begun enrolling patients in its phase III clinical trial evaluating telaprevir, an investigational hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor, in patients who failed prior therapy with peginterferon (Peg-IFN) plus ribavarin (RBV). The trial, known as REALIZE, will compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of telaprevir combined with Peg-IFN plus RBV versus ...
Steroid-antibiotic combo may help in quick recovery from pneumonia
Published October 15, 2008, 6:19 am, New Kerala
Washington, Oct 15 : A combination of corticosteroids with traditional antimicrobial therapy may help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, say UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists.
Study Finds Mannatech's BounceBack(TM) Capsules Reduce Muscle Soreness*
Published October 15, 2008, 6:15 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
COPPELL, Texas----Mannatech, Incorporated , a leading developer and provider of dietary supplements and skin care solutions, announced today that the results of a recent randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover human study indicate that Mannatech's BounceBack™ capsules significantly reduce muscle soreness after overexertion.*
Hormone replacement therapy and risk
Published October 15, 2008, 6:01 am, Bluffton Today
Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women, develops in 11 percent of women and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths, following lung cancer. Approximately 182,460 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 with 40,480 deaths. Most cases are non-hereditary (80 percent) with only 20 percent of breast cancers running in families.
Tibotec Begins Enrollment for Phase III Study of Telaprevir, an Investigational Agent, in HCV Patients Who Failed ...
Published October 15, 2008, 5:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
REALIZE is the first phase III study to evaluate a specifically targeted antiviral therapy for hepatitis C (STAT-C) across a full range of HCV-patients who failed prior treatment to current standard of care, including null responders
Effect Of Acupuncture On IVF Remains Unclear
Published October 15, 2008, 4:08 am, Medical News Today
The use of acupuncture to increase fertility is far from new dating back to Taoist tradition over 8,000 years ago but its use in societies in which Western medicine dominates is less than a century old, and no one knows for sure whether acupuncture can increase the chances of becoming pregnant. A new review of studies attempts to come closer to an answer.
Steroids Aid Recovery From Pneumonia
Published October 15, 2008, 4:08 am, Medical News Today
Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found. Unlike the anabolic steroids used to bulk up muscle, corticosteroids are often used to treat inflammation related to infectious diseases, such as bacterial meningitis.
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- St. John's Wort Relieves Symptoms Of Major Depression, Study Shows: The overall picture is complicated, however, by the fact that the results were more favourable in trials conducted in German speaking countries, where St. John's extracts have a long tradition and are often prescribed by doctors.
- Changing the patterns that contribute to unhappiness: Linda Mitchell-Domin guez of Stillwater, a nurse turned holistic healer, is a small woman with a big vision. Nine years ago, she stopped working in traditional medicine with two goals.
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- Feedback - 08 October 2008 - New Scientist: Expensive placebos work better
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- Are Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking? | Depression & Happiness | DISCOVER Magazine: placebo effect, mind over matter, power of the mind to manifest physical change etc.
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- Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy: These results are consistent with described phenomena of commercial variables affecting quality expectations1 and expectations influencing therapeutic efficacy.4 Placebo responses to commercial features have many potential clinical implications. For example, they may help explain the popularity of high-cost medical therapies (eg, cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors) over inexpensive, widely available alternatives (eg, over-the-count er nonsteroidal anti-inflammat ory drugs) and why patients switching from branded medications may report that their generic equivalents are less effective
- Joe Moran: A prayer with no meaning | The Guardian: The market summary at the end of the news has become a ritual daily tutorial in neo-liberalism
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