The study showed virtually the same symptoms among mycoprotein eaters and a placebo group.
There is no placebo group on the trial, and it involved only 102 patients.
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Overall death in the Crestor group was 20 percent less than the placebo group.
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Pre-eclampsia happened in 17% of the placebo group, compared with only 8% of those in the vitamin group.
And in pooled results from two studies, forty-nine patients on Simdax died, compared to 40 in the placebo group.
There were 21 cases of precancer or cancer in the placebo group, compared with none for those taking Gardasil.
On the placebo group, only 5% of patients saw that degree of improvement.
Testing on the drug, torcetrapib, was ceased after more people in the drug group died than in the placebo group.
Diabetes occurred at a rate of 7.6% a year in the placebo group and 2.1% a year in the Actos group.
There were a few more heart problems, and three deaths in the Actos group compared to one in the placebo group.
Grundy points out that patients in the placebo group seem to have received cholesterol drugs more often than those who got Tricor.
Roughly one-third of the women in the soy group also reported constipation as a side effect, versus 21% in the placebo group.
In fact, 48% of the women who took soy experienced hot flashes, compared with just 31% percent of those in the placebo group.
In July, researchers hastily released a study, called SEAS, in which patients on Vytorin developed and died of cancer more often than those in a placebo group.
The study, called 090, showed that five, or 1.3%, of patients taking Vioxx had heart attacks or strokes, compared to one, or 0.2%, in the placebo group.
The researchers, reporting in the Lancet medical journal, found 32 cases of TB in those who had received the vaccine compared with 39 in the placebo group.
In 4S, after five years, patients on simvastatin (trade name: Zocor, Merck) had mean decreases of 35% for LDL and 30% fewer deaths than the placebo group.
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And one thing that makes me concerned is that during the test of just VX-809, there is a lot more variability in the placebo group than in those getting VX-809.
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Sister Rogene Fox, an 81-year-old nun at Assisi Heights convent in Minnesota, was in the placebo group of the Mayo Clinic study after getting a painful vertebra fracture in 2007.
The researchers found that the illness cleared up after an average of 31 hours in those treated with nitazoxanide, compared to an average of 75 hours for the placebo group.
AGI-1067 increased levels of two liver enzymes in eight patients, twice as many as in the placebo group, and there was one case of liver failure on the drug, compared with none for the placebo.
This has bedeviled companies making drugs for mental illness, such as Eli Lilly, which has lost a lot of ground with a promising antipsychotic because of a 2009 where, the company says, the placebo group outperformed.
Instead, the FDA said that the drug could be approved at an interim look two years into the study if patients on Contrave have fewer than twice as many heart attacks as those on a placebo group.
The new results, issued via press release, show that patients who injected themselves with either 80 milligrams or 160 mg of Arcalyst once a week had a 72% decrease in the average number of gout flares compared to a placebo group.
In BLOOM 1 there was an increase in the total number of satisfying sexual events of 3.87 from baseline (an increase of 83 percent) in the LibiGel group and in the placebo group there was an increase of 3.52 satisfying sexual events from baseline (an increase of 65 percent) for a p value of 0.698.
In that trial Glaxo found a total of 13 people on Serevent had died of asthma, while only 3 people had died in the placebo inhaler group (everyone was allowed albuterol).
In one scale there was a 5 point improvement in symptoms in the placebo pill group, but people who got nothing had a 4 point improvement over the same period of time This suggests that the main effect here is the passage of time.
Compared with the group taking placebo, memantine-treated patients had less deterioration in mental function over the 28 weeks.
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The curcumin arthritis studies have a major flaw: Neither included a placebo, or control group, says rheumatologist David Felson, who directs an arthritis research team at Boston University School of Medicine.
One such, carried out in the British city of Durham, was controversial in that it was funded by a maker of children's omega-3 supplements and did not include a control group being given a placebo.
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