Clinical Trial Research
Studies from Harvard University provide new data on clinical trial research
Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, August 6th, 2008
"The placebo effect has been the subject of much controversy. For a scientific investigation of placebo effects to advance it is important to establish whether a placebo response in any particular illness is reliable - i.e., if there is a response to a single placebo administration there will also be a placebo response to the repeated administration of a similar placebo in similar conditions," investigators in the United States report.
"A positive answer would allow more sophisticated clinical trial designs and more precise basic research experiments on the placebo effect. This article reviews experiments that used multiple administrations of placebo to answer the...
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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2008-08-06)
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