sugar pill


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sugar pill

Medspeak
A colloquial term most commonly used by mainstream health professionals for a placebo (which often contains lactose), regardless of whether or not it contains sugar.  

Popular health
A lay term for any oral agent used to control diabetes.
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Not only can your brain make medicine out of sugar pills, it can make memories out of daydreams.
You need a placebo--not a cure
All they have to do is be better than a sugar pill.
The FDA exposed: an interview with Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx[R] whistleblower: reprinted with permission
(3) Statistically, glucosamine plus chondroitin was no better than a sugar pill.
Do arthritis supplements work? Don't bet your joints on it
Saline and sugar pills were used by 3 8 of 623 and 12 of 642 physicians (3% and 2%, respectively).
Survey shows wide use of active placebos
Saline and sugar pills were used by 18 of 623 and 12 of 642 physicians (3% and 2%, respectively).
Physician survey shows widespread use of active placebos; AMA policy murky
I keep a bottle of the tiny sugar pills with me wherever I go--for my dogs and myself.
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Research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in March found that elderly patients with depression treated with Lilly's Cymbalta[R] (duloxetine hydrochloride), 60 mg once daily, had twice as much improvement in verbal learning and recalling information than those given a sugar pill. By the end of the eight-week study, patients treated with Cymbalta demonstrated significantly greater improvement in cognition when compared with patients receiving sugar pills.
Depression drug shows promise for cognition
The expectancy effect is related to the placebo effect, in which a patient reports a positive response to an inactive medical treatment, such as a sugar pill, as if it were an active medical treatment.
OHSU studies effects of wellness expectations
A sugar pill, with huge built-in name recognition: Placebo.
Placebo panacea
John's Wort doesn't help any better than taking a placebo ("sugar pill").
Getting the goods on popular herbal remedy
Researchers studied 1503 HPV-16-negative women, giving the vaccine to 738 and a placebo (sugar pill) to 765.
New vaccine to prevent HPV infection and cervical cancer. (In the News)
Control group: A group of patients in a study who receive a "sugar pill" or conventional treatment rather than the experimental therapy.
Out of the laboratory and into the bathroom cabinet: designing and implementing clinical trials. (Clinical Trials)

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