Well-done double-blind trials trump other kinds of medical evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Terms You Need To Know] Reference
Can such a hypothesis submit to the rigors of double-blind experiments?. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Shehori: The Prop 8 Monologues, Vol. 1 of 2 - What Would Ronald McDonald Do?] Reference
Which randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trials of MMR do you refer to?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
LAWRENCE: Well, I published a study, double-blind, on a small group of osteoarthritic patients. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: How Can Arthritis Pain Be Alleviated? - April 3, 2000] Reference
If you join a Phase III trial, it will likely be randomized, placebo-controlled and double-blind. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Guinea Pig] Reference
The experts demand that acupuncture undergo the gold standard of research, the double-blind study. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Neither doctors nor patients knew who was getting what until the end (that's the double-blind part). From Wordnik.com. [A Consumer's Guide To Medical Jargon] Reference
SHULMAN: I think, I'm not familiar with any sophisticated double-blind studies to answer that question. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2004] Reference
In the latest trial, Theodoridou's team tested 96 men and women in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial. From Wordnik.com. [Oxytocin seen as love hormone] Reference
It is because the government-funded trial was a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. From Wordnik.com. [A Consumer's Guide To Medical Jargon] Reference
The gold standard for medical decision making is the randomized placebo-controlled double-blind prospective study. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Soram Khalsa: Breast Cancer, Integrative Medicine, and Vitamin D] Reference
In a double-blind study in which doctors didn't know the purpose of the work, they found evidence in only 7% of X-rays. From Wordnik.com. [Some Asbestos Grace] Reference
There are, after all, no double-blind, placebo-controlled medical studies on the effects, or lack thereof, of snake love. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Rosenfeld: Are You an Animal Lover?] Reference
We double-blind searched -- well, the handlers and dogs all the two locations and all the dogs verified each other that time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference
I didn't need a double-blind study to convince me that most people were not thrilled with what they saw when they looked at me. From Wordnik.com. [Smothers Mothers: James Wolcott] Reference
And to ensure unambiguous test results, neither you nor your doctor will know which group you're in; that's the double-blind part. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Guinea Pig] Reference
More clues may come from a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the statin Zocor that is nearing completion. From Wordnik.com. [Your Brain on Statins] Reference
Someday we will have that prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to help give parents some definitive guidance. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Bob Sears: Vaccines And Autism: What Can Parents Do During This Controversy?] Reference
Full results from the earlier double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II study, which involved only 24 patients, have yet to be unveiled. From Wordnik.com. [Supply Issue] Reference
But to my abject disappointment, it is all about psychological research and correlates and independent variables and double-blind studies. From Wordnik.com. [Living History -- Confessions of a Real-Life Relic] Reference
Should they not insist upon stringent double-blind tests of the concoctions Ramdev sells through his Divya Yoga business empire, for example?. From Wordnik.com. [Is India a science superpower?] Reference
Still, studying the effects of acupuncture with the traditional, Western, double-blind placebo controlled model presents certain difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Rosenfeld: Should You Try Acupuncture?] Reference
In a randomized, double-blind, controlled study -- the type of trial used to test pharmaceuticals -- she surveyed 224 New York City homemakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Dirt On Antibacterial Soaps] Reference
Modern medicine uses the double-blind and placebo-controlled trial as the gold standard by which the effectiveness of a treatment is determined. From Wordnik.com. [Lies, Damn Lies and Medical Research] Reference
But I would simply say that medical science is making such strides, and by doing double-blind field tests, we know what works and what doesn't work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's the Best Way to Treat Prostate Cancer? - April 27, 2000] Reference
This must be detected in advance by well designed double-blind feeding trials in a sufficiently large sample of human subjects for at least 30 days. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 28] Reference
"Evidence-based practices" are derived at their "best" from double-blind placebo controlled trials that usually relate to a specific kind of person. From Wordnik.com. [Srinivasan Pillay: Is Health Care Reform Possible Without Caring For The Providers?] Reference
So Dendreon agreed to complete another double-blind trial to FDA specifications, and Dendreon officials say the results have now met those benchmarks. From Wordnik.com. [Prostate Cancer and FDA Politics] Reference
The more-than 400 patients participating in this randomized, double-blind phase III study received either everolimus or a dummy pill, known as placebo. From Wordnik.com. [Novartis Late-State Cancer Trial] Reference
"We can't do double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, because no institution would ethically allow it to happen, and there's a reason for that," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Tanning beds may get closer scrutiny based on findings about skin cancer risk] Reference
And consider that no scientist has studied the effect of any PED on home run production in a double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over pharmacological study. From Wordnik.com. [Gary R. Gaffney: The Myth of the Myth of HGH as Performance Enhancing] Reference
I say "probably" because the double-blind disbursement of hormone and placebo is so rigorously observed that I have no formal confirmation of what I was given. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: The Lure Of Tourism] Reference
The U.S. government says AZT is effective in prolonging the lives of those infected with HIV, and it claims that double-blind clinical trials back up this contention. From Wordnik.com. ['Dad, I'm Hiv Positive'] Reference
PAYNE: Because of the politics surrounding the use of the drug, particularly in terms of abortion issues, the drug has never had a fully completed double-blind study. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: FDA Approves 'Abortion Pill' Use in U.S. - September 28, 2000] Reference
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