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Meanings of dummy drug in English
A preparation which is pharmacologically inert but which may have a medical effect based solely on the power of suggestion.
Synonyms
Examples for "placebo"
Examples for "placebo"
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Discussion: TPM produced significantly greater weight loss than placebo at all doses.
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Patients given placebo on top of standard drugs steadily worsened, she said.
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Without a placebo group, clinical response data must be interpreted with caution.
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Double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges are the standard for diagnosis of food allergies.
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Patients received either CHM or placebo packages with a corresponding serial number.
Usage of dummy drug in English
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In both trials, the painkiller was compared with a dummy drug, or placebo.
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Two deaths occurred in patients assigned to receive a dummy drug, Savient said in a statement.
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DX-88 improved the condition of the patients in a statistically significant manner over a dummy drug.
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The interim analysis conducted by the board compared the drug Viprinex with a dummy drug in treating stroke patients.
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The safety and preliminary efficacy of the drug, Prochymal, was tested in 53 heart-attack patients, compared with a dummy drug.
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Accentia Biopharmaceuticals said its lead product candidate, SinuNase, failed to achieve the required level of statistical significance compared to a dummy drug.
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Tolamba did not show a significant improvement over a dummy drug in reducing nasal symptoms, the biopharmaceutical company said in a statement.
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In the second subgroup, the results favored the drug over the dummy drug, although the difference was not statistically significant, the company added.
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The negative results were largely driven by an unusually large response of the dummy drug in the subgroup of monotherapy subjects, it added.
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The companies said treatment with the drug, code-named XP13512, resulted in a statistically significant lower proportion of relapses compared to a dummy drug.
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In the study, patients treated with Tarceva showed a 23 percent improvement in overall survival, compared to patients who received the dummy drug.
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In a late-stage trial of the drug, a higher dosage of Gattex did not prove to be significantly better than a dummy drug.
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In a statement, the companies said the anti-IL-2 receptor antibody significantly reduced the number of new or enlarged lesions compared to the dummy drug.
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Compared to the dummy drug, Xibrom also produced a lower overall incidence of ocular adverse events, the ophthalmic pharmaceutical company said in a statement.
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The trial's main goal was to reduce proteinuria -the presence of excess protein in urine -compared with a dummy drug in patients.
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In the psoriasis trial, 424 showed a statistically significant improvement over dummy drug in the reduction in total lesion score -the primary goal.