Monday, June 18, 2012

Placebo patients

  • time it took patients to fall asleep and increased the time that patients stayed asleep as early as the first night and at the three-month time point compared to placebo.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • In the Cannabinoid Use in Progressive Inflammatory Brain Disease (CUPID) trial, investigators randomized 329 patients to 14-28 mg of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)/day in capsule form based on weight, and 164 to placebo.
  • (familypracticenews.com)
  • The treatment was given by subcutaneous injection at baseline, week four, and every 12 weeks thereafter. Patients randomized to placebo could have blinded early escape at week 16 if they had no therapeutic response, McInnes noted.
  • (MedPage Today)
  • For the objective measures, patients taking suvorexant entered into continuous sleep 36.0 minutes faster (vs. 26.6 minutes with placebo) and spent less time awake during the night by 47.9 minutes (vs. 25.
  • (News-Medical.Net)
  • SAN DIEGO – A year of using the experimental drug ospemifene for vulvar and vaginal atrophy produced no clinically significant estrogenic or adverse endometrial effects, compared with placebo in a study of 180 women.
  • (familypracticenews.com)
  • Greater proportions of patients achieved disease remission as judged by the DAS28-CRP 2.6 in the 4mg (37%) and 8mg (22%) dose groups compared to placebo (4%) (p≤0.001).
  • (EurekAlert)
  • A new study says that patients treated with certolizumab pegol (CZP) were twice as likely to meet the primary endpoint of ACR20* response at week 12 than those on placebo: 58% on CZP200mg Q2W; and 51.9% on CZP 400 mg Q4W compared to 24.
  • (Med India)
  • Patients with peanut allergy were tested by classical allergy tests (Prick test and IgE), and allergy was finally confirmed during a standardized double blind placebo-controlled food challenge (DBPCFC).
  • (TMCnet)
  • Dyax said initial data from the mid-stage trial showed that Kalbitor was not significantly more effective than a placebo. In part that was because patients who were given the placebo did better than expected.
  • (Emailwire)

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