Known as "the father of sugar pills", Gu passed away on January 2, 2019.

被誉为“糖丸之父”的顾方舟于2019年1月2日去世。

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A recent study suggests that vitamin E supplements, despite widespread belief in their efficacy, are no better than sugar pills for delaying the onset of the degenerative disease.

最近的一项研究表明，尽管人们普遍相信维生素 E 补充剂的功效，但在延缓退行性疾病发病方面，维生素 E 补充剂并不比糖丸效果更好。

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Eighty patients with irritable bowel syndrome were instructed to take two sugar pills daily.

指示有八十名过敏性结肠综合征病人每日得到两颗糖丸。

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Others would have received a placebo sugar pills -- for comparison.

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Half were given 80mg oral iron tablets every day, while half were given sugar pills.

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One group was given sugar pills.

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The 1960s were when the Food and Drug Administration, in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, started requiring proof of efficacy and long-term safety, and when medicine started relying on clinical trials that compared new treatments to old ones or to inert sugar pills.

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