Posted by Larry Hoover on February 5, 2006, at 12:09:27
In reply to results of placebo v. placebo study, posted by zeugma on February 4, 2006, at 6:43:58
> this is what we are all curious about: can a well-conducted and rigorous study establish statistical superiority of one placebo over another? Which placebo has a more benign side effect profile? Can pdocs gain some insight into which type of placebo they should prescribe for their patients using RCT data? This is the first study into what is bound to be an expanding area of interest, as the costs of drug development appear to have slowed the process of getting new drugs onto the market- placebos do not tax the chemists' ingenuity as much, albeit it does a require a bit of a paradigm shift on the part of the marketing branch :-)
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16452103&query_hl=11&itool=pubmed_docsumIf these placebos can have substantial effect in reducing symptoms, then why is it that hypnosis doesn't have a medical application?
Lar
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