Article: Controversy About Lack of Placebo Group Decline in Alzheimers Clinical Trials

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- Two Large-Scale Analyses Have Conflicting Results -

CHICAGO, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lack of measureable decline in memory and thinking processes among placebo groups in Alzheimers disease clinical trials might reduce the ability to show the effectiveness of new Alzheimer therapies, according to new research reported today at the 2008 Alzheimers Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago.

Alzheimer clinical trials seek to show that those who received the treatment improved over the course of ...

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