Article: UC researcher uses historical control group for new osteoporotic fracture analysis.

Article: UC researcher uses historical control group for new ...
Women's Health Weekly;  August 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... study that was conducted without a placebo control group. The original study was intended ... women, and thus did not have a placebo control group. Watts constructed a historical placebo control group from patients in previous Actonel ...

Article: Treating Delusional Disorder: A Comparison of ...
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... patients with DD who received CBT, compared with an attention placebo control (APC) group. Method: Twenty-four individuals with ... delusional disorder, cognitive-behavioural therapy, attention placebo control Delusional disorder, the contemporary conceptualization ...

Article: Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control ...
Chinese Medicine;  January 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Authors: Irne Lund [1]; Jan Nslund [1]; Thomas Lundeberg (corresponding author) [2] Background Randomised placebo-controlled clinical trials (placebo-controlled RCTs) are used to evaluate the efficacy of medical interventions. The ultimate intention of these placebo-controlled RCTs is to eliminate

Article: U.S. Food And Drug Administration Licenses INFANRIX(TM) ...
PR Newswire;  January 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... enrolled more than 25,000 children. The trials were randomized, double-blinded with a whole-cell DTP control group and a placebo control group. Results of the trials, reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in February, 1996, supported ...

Article: RESEARCH CAPSULE
Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... treatment was 6.5 percentage points higher. The rate of response in the celecoxib control group was 10.0 percentage points higher than that in the placebo control group. For patients with moderate-to-severe pain at baseline, the rate of response ...

Article: Media Sugarcoats Fetal Tissue Transplant Failure.
National Right to Life News;  June 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... hyped fetal tissue transplant experiments were subjected to what scientists call "placebo control." Previously, reports of patient benefits lacked a control group against which to measure alleged improvements. The four-year study was led ...

Article: The ALS Association Awards TREAT ALS Funding to Three Clinical ...
Business Wire;  January 16, 2006 ;     679 words ... ... should produce a slower decline in function compared to a historic control group, further testing will proceed under an expanded, Phase III protocol with a placebo control. The third project funded by TREAT ALS will provide a simple but as ...