Could these antiviral pills treat long COVID?
Could Paxlovid solve one of the pandemic's biggest puzzles? A new study at Stanford University aims to find out.
Nov 25, 2022
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Therapeutics: News and Research on Placebos
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Anesthetics that block nerves around the knee relieve pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Results from a recent clinical trial published by Wiley in Arthritis & Rheumatology demonstrate that patients with knee osteoarthritis experience short term pain relief from genicular nerve blocks—or locally injected anesthetics ...
Nov 12, 2022
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Ethics not only allow but demand placebo in some HIV cure trials, argues a research team
Is it ethical to test possible HIV cures by having subjects stop taking antiretroviral therapy and then giving them placebos rather than the experimental treatment?
Sep 29, 2022
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Children with condition that causes temporary facial paralysis can recover without treatment
Most children with a condition that causes a temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles in the face recover without medication within six months, according to a new study.
Sep 8, 2022
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Magicians' tricks to make better placebos to test dry needling in clinical trials
Placebos are fake treatments that are crucial in clinical trials to test if a treatment actually works or whether benefits are merely due to receiving an apparently credible treatment from a trusted clinician. But placebos ...
Aug 4, 2022
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