placebo
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"We don't know if it's a placebo effect. We don't know the long-term effect of this type of treatment."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
He dismisses concerns about its effectiveness, including suggestions that alleviated symptoms could be due to a placebo effect.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The company said the late-stage study for its pelacarsen drug missed its primary objective of reducing the risk of cardiovascular events like death, heart attack and stroke compared with placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The company said that the drug didn’t reduce the risk of cardiovascular events—including deaths, heart attacks and strokes—compared with a placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that’s what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
The U-turns mark a broader retreat from demands, pushed under former FDA vaccines and biotech drugs division leader Vinay Prasad, that rare-disease drugmakers test their experimental medicines against placebos to make sure the drugs work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
These sessions used an "open-label placebo" approach, meaning participants were aware that some practices were presented as placebos.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
It was seen as not only socially acceptable but humane to prescribe placebos.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
While studies showed that Sarepta’s Amondys 45 and Vyondys 53 treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy worked better than placebos, the company said the results did not reach statistical significance.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that’s what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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