Sentence examples for over a placebo from inspiring English sources

"The effects from the Vickers study were 15 to 20% over a placebo," he says.

One substance, pyruvate, showed a small benefit over a placebo, about two and a half pounds in six weeks.

But other studies have found no benefits of fiber over a placebo, and some IBS sufferers find that fiber, notably insoluble fiber like wheat bran, makes things worse.

Dr. Parry said that a later study found estrogen therapy offered no advantages over a placebo in prolonging life in patients with prostate cancer.

In a highly anecdotal sampling of a dozen current issues of glossy magazines, a reporter found only one pharmaceutical ad, for the smoking cessation drug Chantix, that quantified its advantages over a placebo.

The Phase II results showed that, at ten milligrams, suvorexant had an effect that could be measured in a sleep lab, but the dose had no advantage over a placebo in the subjective measures — patients' estimations of their own speed in falling asleep, subsequent wakefulness in bed, and total sleep time.

In the study, healthy men took a daily capsule of a billion probiotic bacteria for a month, and then switched over to a placebo for a month, or vice versa.

The RACGP's position statement on homeopathy, released on Wednesday, follows recent findings by the National Health and Medical Research Council that homeopathy produces no health benefits over and above a placebo.

The developer, Osiris Therapeutics, said Tuesday that its drug, Prochymal, was no more effective, over all, than a placebo in treating a life-threatening complication of bone marrow transplantation, though certain patients seemed to be helped.

"It is, however, important that people are aware that there is absolutely no strong scientific evidence that crystals really can have any effect over and above a placebo".

Twenty-four dofs of varying breed, age and sex were used in a cross-over design, involving a placebo treatment and a clomipramine treatment.