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What are drugs tested on in laboratory trials?

placebo


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.


What is a placebo group included in clinical trials?

to see the side effects


What is the sugar pill called?

The sugar pill is commonly known as a placebo. It is a harmless substance given to patients in clinical trials as a control to compare the effects of the active treatment.


Is there a ban substance in serratiopeptidase?

serratiopeptidase has been banned in Japan, the news was published in Japan times. Clinical trials confirm it to be a placebo.


Where can you find double-blind research that proves Homeopathy works if there is any?

There are between 100 and 200 double-blind placebo controlled clinical trials testing homeopathic medicine, most of which show that homeopathic medicines are more effective than a placebo. There are an even greater number of basic science trials. For a list of a small number of high quality trials, go to: http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,132


Do contraceptive pills work if you don't believe in them.. Any evidence from clinical trials with a placebo group. Reason I ask is that clinical trials have proven that placebos work for pain reliev?

Birth control pills are quite reliable. They are made with hormones that do change what happens inside a woman's body, regardless of what she may or may not believe. They do not depend upon the placebo effect.


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.


What is a sentence using the word placebo?

A placebo is an innocuous or inert medication that a doctor may prescibe in place of genuine drugs.Double-blind medical trials provide an actual drug to some patients, while giving others only a placebo.The vouchers offered to irate customers were only a placebo, because few of them would actually use them.


What will happen if you take a large amount of placebos?

Technically, absolutely nothing should happen. A placebo is substance that is meant to deceive the patient into believing they are getting actual medication. Placebo's are most commonly used in drug trials to see if the drug actually works or simply causing a "placebo effect". Which is a psychological response the brain permits when it believes it is being treated. So ultimately the answer to your question is that no, taking large amounts of a placebo won't harm you. Though if you are experiencing placebo effects then it has the possibility of increasing your response to it.


Why is a placebo group included in clinical trials?

sometimes just taking a pill will make people think they are getting better when they really aren't. when you include a placebo group, you can take away the percent that thought they were getting better from the group that was taking the real pills to get a more realistic answer of how the pills are making people feel.


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.