Exempel på placebo

• Update on unethical use of placebos in randomised trials.

• Doctors have a succinct phrase for relatively harmless medicine—placebos.

• None of those placebos has reduced unemployment, but they have successfully held wages down.

• The profession will not again put off with placebos.

• Although these do not amount to an economic strategy, they are placebos which are of some benefit.

• I am not sure whether the people of today, particularly the young, would be likely to accept placebos such as that.

• He believes that a proportion of patients should be given placebos and that some of them will get well.

• There are few reports to suggest that it achieves markedly better results than placebos.

• A review of the evidence revealed that in 21 trials acupuncture was no better than placebos in securing long-term abstinence from smoking.

• Perhaps they were all placebos.

• Double blind study of imipramine and placebo for incontinence due to bladder instability.

• One of the drinks was nutritionally balanced and contained tryptophan (placebo), the other was identical but contained no tryptophan.

• Randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of high-flow inhaled oxygen in acute cluster headache.

• Efficacy of pregabalin in neuropathic pain evaluated in a 12-week, randomised, double-blind, multicentre, placebo-controlled trial of flexible- and fixed-dose regimens.

• In the flexible-dosage study in patients with spinal cord injury pain, 22% of pregabalin and 8% of placebo-treated patients were responders.