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placebo-control

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  • We simply do not have large scale, long-term intervention trials with all the bells and whistles -- randomization, double-blinding, placebo-control -- to tell us what dose of calcium or vitamin D is truly optimal for health.

    David Katz, M.D.: Is The IOM Right To Recommend We Get Less? Vitamin D And Calcium? M.D. David Katz 2010

  • We simply do not have large-scale, long-term intervention trials with all the bells and whistles - randomization, double-blinding, placebo-control to tell us what dose of calcium or vitamin D is truly optimal for health.

    David Katz, M.D.: Is The IOM Right To Recommend We Get Less? Vitamin D And Calcium? M.D. David Katz 2010

  • All drugs used to be tested in placebo-control trials, meaning half of the patients were taking useless sugar tablets; ACT UP rejected this model outright as cruel in a fatal illness when experimental drugs are the only hope.

    The Angry Prophet Is Dying 2007

  • It was a placebo-control trial, double blind -- which meant that the investigators really didn't know which agent the agents or subjects were being treated with, nor did the patients.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2004 2004

  • This study was a double-blind, placebo-control RCT over one year.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • This study was a double-blind, placebo-control RCT over one year.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • "We are stuck with only animal studies and molecular studies, and some clinical studies done in the '60s and '70s, most on a very small number of men… We need well-designed, placebo-control studies examining marijuana's effect in both the short-term and long-term."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Since then, it has been difficult to do high-quality placebo-control studies over a period of weeks to show the effectiveness of elimination diet, said Dr. Susan Jerrott of IWK Health Centre in Halifax.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • "We are stuck with only animal studies and molecular studies, and some clinical studies done in the '60s and '70s, most on a very small number of men… We need well-designed, placebo-control studies examining marijuana's effect in both the short-term and long-term."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "We are stuck with only animal studies and molecular studies, and some clinical studies done in the '60s and '70s, most on a very small number of men… We need well-designed, placebo-control studies examining marijuana's effect in both the short-term and long-term."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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