Re:FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection
by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:11PM
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> It is. Control groups are no-treatment if no approved treatment exists, or current standard of care if there's an approved treatment. That's standard practice.
I've read plenty of pharmaceutical trials where the control was a plain placebo, not the current standard of care, when it not involve a life threatening illness.
Clearly this antipsychotics trial does not evaluate the drug 's effectiveness against the current standard of care's, but against a placebo's.
> If by "perfect placebo," you mean "no treatment," that's not correct, and is considered unethical.
I mean giving them a drug that lacks an active ingredient but is otherwise not to the lay eye discriminatable from an effective drug.
And that is very much what is done in the case of the antipsychotics medicine I showed. So it's only unethical when human lives be at stake, apparently.
I've read plenty of pharmaceutical trials where the control was a plain placebo, not the current standard of care, when it not involve a life threatening illness.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00061802
Clearly this antipsychotics trial does not evaluate the drug 's effectiveness against the current standard of care's, but against a placebo's.
> If by "perfect placebo," you mean "no treatment," that's not correct, and is considered unethical.
I mean giving them a drug that lacks an active ingredient but is otherwise not to the lay eye discriminatable from an effective drug.
And that is very much what is done in the case of the antipsychotics medicine I showed. So it's only unethical when human lives be at stake, apparently.