Today results from a new sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF study showed significant reductions in death and hospitalization for five pre-defined high-risk patient sub-groups with chronic heart failure (CHF) and mild symptoms treated with eplerenone in addition to standard therapy versus those treated with placebo and standard therapy. ...

Colchicine, when given in addition to conventional therapy, was more effective than placebo in reducing the incidence of recurrence and the persistence of symptoms of pericarditis in a randomised controlled trial.

(European Society of Cardiology) Today results from a new sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF study showed significant reductions in death and hospitalization for five pre-defined high-risk patient sub-groups with chronic heart failure (CHF) and mild symptoms treated with eplerenone in addition to standard therapy versus those treated with placebo and standard ...

Asthma and many ailments can be partially just in your head research released this week claims. A new study finds that the power of the placebo effect versus albuterol inhalers left asthma patients thinking that real and fake drugs were doing the same level of good. The results ...

Asthma and many ailments can be partially just in your head research released this week claims. A new study finds that the power of the placebo effect versus albuterol inhalers left asthma patients thinking that real and fake drugs were doing the same level of good. The results ...

Placebos are "dummy pills" often used in research trials to test new drug therapies and the "placebo effect" is the benefit patients receive from a treatment that has no active ingredients. Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice. But whether or not placebos can ...

Who is right when patients say they get the same relief from placebos for their asthma symptoms as their prescription drug, while clinical tests find that only the medication has any significant effect? These surprising findings were reported by Harvard University researchers in the latest issue of NEJM (New England ...

Placebos are "dummy pills" often used in research trials to test new drug therapies and the "placebo effect" is the benefit patients receive from a treatment that has no active ingredients. Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice.

Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced preliminary results obtained on a 28-day phase 2A clinical trial in Friedreich's ataxia. While the primary endpoint of glucose disposition index (a measure of glucose handling by the body) did not show statistically significant improvement, EPI-A0001 did significantly improve neurological function as assessed by the Friedreich's ...

The results of this study, conducted in Germany, re-open the debate on whether it is ethical to conduct placebo-controlled studies where patients in the placebo-group are at a serious disadvantage compared to patients taking the new treatments. The study analysed current study designs, for new therapies such as abatacept (Orencia®), ...

The results of this study, conducted in Germany, re-open the debate on whether it is ethical to conduct placebo-controlled studies where patients in the placebo-group are at a serious disadvantage compared to patients taking the new treatments. The study analysed current study designs, for new therapies such as abatacept (Orencia), ...

(European League Against Rheumatism) Current study designs, assessing the effectiveness of new drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), discriminate against patients in the placebo-group, according to a critical appraisal assessing 17 trials, presented today at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. The authors of the study hypothesize that an ...