Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work

Re:Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work by sharadov on Friday May 31, 2019 @03:08PM (#20064019)

What about the placebo effect? They've done studies where the patients knew that they were taking placebos, but still saw improvements...

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Re:Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work by danieltillett on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:32PM (#20066063)

The placebo effect causes all sorts of problems for drug trials in certain areas where the control arm does much better than expected swamping the statistics of the treatment arm (trials are powered with an assumption of how well the placebo will work).

Interestingly, the unexpectly effective placebo effect seems to be limited to the USA. Why nobody is sure.

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Re:Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work by boomboomsubban on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:02PM (#20065873)

I don't think you could publish a clinical trial that does not already consider the placebo effect, so it's unlikely these findings are related to it.

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Re:Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work by refurb on Saturday June 01, 2019 @12:23AM (#20067230)

This focused mostly on cancer where the placebo effect doesn’t impact things like tumor size or survival.

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