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What is the name of an inactive sugar pill?
The word for an inactive medication, used mostly as a blind in clinical trials, is a placebo.
Is it ethical to use placebo in clinical trial what is your opinion and what do cioms and ich guidelines mention in this regard?
Placebo is a dose of an inactive pill or other type of drug, used in drug testing to control for psychological effects of taking medicine. Its use is debated in clinical trials, but the practice of prescribing placebo for patients is far more controversial.
Is nicotine patch and placebo the same?
No. A placebo is in a way a "fake medication", a pill without the active ingredient. Often used in clinical trials for the "control group", to avoid psychological bias. A nicotine patch does have an active ingredient (the nicotine), and is used to gradually wean people of smoking.
Why are clinical trials used?
Because they are :)
What are breast cancer clinical trials used for?
Breast Cancer clinical trials are used to test new medicines, procedures, and surgeries to better aid in the treatment and finding a cure for the cancer.
What does intervention or clinical trials mean?
Clinical trials are controlled and paid experiments using humans as subjects. The clinical trials may consists of taking medicines or administration of it to an informed individual or group of informed individuals. The results from these trials are used for the improvement of certain treatment modalities or how to control a specific illness.
Which type of clinical trials is used the least?
Phase IV trial
What is the purpose of a clinical trial in medicine?
Clinical trials are conducted for many reasons: to determine whether a new drug or device is safe and effective for people to use. to study different ways to use standard treatments or current, approved treatments so that they will be more effective, easier to use, or decrease certain side effects.
What is a placebo used for in scientific studies?
Placebo is a dummy drug, which is identical in appearance to the drug under study but will have no therapeutic property. Placebos are used in clinical trials in order compare the effect of drugs on humans. The placebos are given to the control group and the drug is given to the treatment group. The effects on both the groups are then documented and compared to see the action of the drug in humans. Placebos are used in randomized, controlled trials. Know more about the processes in clinical research: http://www.crocareers.in
A placebo eases the pain or severity of a disease but does not cure it?
A placebo is a 'pretend' medicine. If you were testing a new pain relief pill, for example, you might prescribe that to 1,000 people and prescribe a harmless placebo (perhaps just sugar made to look like a pill) to another 1,000 patients. One would naturally expect that the first pill eased pain while the placebo did nothing, but because of psychological components etc., it is possible that several patients who received the placebo will claim it did relieve their pain! Strictly, a placebo should do nothing to improve the lot of a patient...
What is clinical biotechnology?
Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food and medicine. Clinical biotech. would be used in a hospital type field.
Give two reasons why clinical trials have to be done before drugs are made freely available?
There are many reasons why clinical trials need to be conducted before making new drugs commercially available. First of all, drug makers need to be sure that a drug is safe, this is tested by giving the drug to a group of volunteers in a controlled environment (staying at a clinic for several days) and monitoring their vital signs, their blood chemistry, and checking for any side effects. Secondly, clinical trials are needed to determine whether a drug is effective at treating a certain condition. Drugs in clinical trials are given blind, meaning that the doctor nor the patient knows whether someone is taking the drug being studied or a placebo (sugar pill). Studying the effects of the drug in this scenario can prove whether the drug is effective. Finally, clinical trials are also used to determine the proper dose of a drug by giving escalating doses to volunteers and monitoring the blood levels of the drug and watching for any side effects.
