The primary value of placebo controls in clinical trials is the minimization of bias.

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.

Craveiro from Lisbon had scoliosis since childhood, but now, she is not just free from any pain, but has become a competitive ...

Only 1 in 10 nonsurgical treatments for low back pain are more effective placebo, a review of 56 different treatments and ...

Discover recent clinical trial failures in depression and explore potential pathways for advancing antidepressant drug ...

That’s the potential promise of a new study on a drug made by Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. At a scientific ...

There was no difference between the effect sizes of discontinued drugs compared with currently marketed NSAIDs (MD 0.3, 95% CI −3.7 to 4.3; p=0.88), although no trials investigating celecoxib were ...

Some birth control pills are taken according to a 28-day menstrual cycle with 21 days of hormone pills followed by seven days of non-hormone or placebo pills. Bleeding is to be expected during the ...

The FDA approves a new non-opioid pain pill, Journavx, to treat acute pain in adults. It's a first-generation non-addictive ...

Since 2016, the FDA has approved three disease-modifying treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, with several ...