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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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This study was a double-blind, placebo-control RCT over one year.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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This study was a double-blind, placebo-control RCT over one year.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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"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."
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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.
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"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."
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"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."
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