Removing the double-blind restriction in such an environment is an invitation for science abuse.
Neither doctors nor patients knew who was getting what until the end (that's the double-blind part).
Many providers of alternative therapy say it is inherently unsuited to double-blind randomised trials.
In the double-blind, randomized control trial, half the women got tenofovir gel and half got a placebo.
It is because the government-funded trial was a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized controlled trial.
The HM-901 has been extensively tested in double-blind listening sessions and compares favorably to the highest quality digital players.
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Six years ago I was part of a consulting team that was asked by a major biotech firm to conduct a six-month long double-blind study of its sales force.
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Those papers fail to use double-blind methods to strip out possible researcher bias, and most rely on self-reported mold exposure by patients, many of whom are involved in mold lawsuits.
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial enrolled 51 patients age 12 to 53 years, including 7 patients age 12 to 16 years, who were maintaining a regimen of maximally-tolerated lipid lowering medications.
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And in a study published last year, researchers in Australia showed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that subjects with suspected gluten sensitivity had substantially fewer symptoms on a gluten-free diet than control subjects who unknowingly ingested gluten.
Studies that were often double-blind and placebo-controlled.
Then, this week, the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, a flagship government hospital in the Tamil Nadu capital of Chennai, announced its intention to do a double-blind study to see how effective the neem-papaya mix is in battling dengue.
Safety data for KYNAMRO are based on pooled results from four Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials with a total of 390 patients of which 261 patients received weekly subcutaneous injections of 200 mg of KYNAMRO and 129 patients received placebo for a median treatment duration of 25 weeks.
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The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
Please try Double Blind , a thriller about two blind dates with two beautiful women and two deadly secrets. (Plus the Mafia, Federal agents, violence, sex, double-crosses, and murder.) Watch the Double Blind video.
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