singular_me
31st October 2015, 07:42 PM
if only people could understand the power of their minds, NWO would be over overnight.
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The Strange Growing Effectiveness of Placebos
October 26, 2015
It turns out that positive thinking—or just being an American—might have as much healing power as pharmaceuticals.
The placebo effect appears to be increasing, making it more difficult for drug manufacturers to determine whether their latest creations are actually doing patients any good. And a new study has shown that the phenomenon is most prevalent in the United States, according to the BBC.
Researchers at Canada’s McGill University found that just taking part in clinical trials in the United States has a healing effect. There’s no clear reason why this might be so, although the advertising to consumers of prescription drugs, which isn’t allowed in most other countries, might play a part. Researcher Jeffrey Mogil said that the size of the U.S. trials might also be a factor. Larger, well-funded trials might give the outward appearance to participants that the researchers are on to something.
Some patients also enroll in trials because of a financial benefit. They may exaggerate their symptoms to gain entrance to the trial, then as it continues, their “symptoms” disappear. That might be attributed by researchers to a placebo effect.
Sometimes placebos work even when a patient knows he or she is getting one. A study cited by Mercola.com reported that 60% of patients with irritable bowel syndrome who knew they were getting a placebo still reported a relief of symptoms, compared to only 35% who received no treatment at all.
http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/the-strange-growing-effectiveness-of-placebos-151026?news=857714
Why are placebos getting more effective?
20 October 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34572482
Growing Placebo Effect in US Thwarts Painkiller Development
As recently reported by Scientific American1 and Forbes,2 drug companies are finding it increasingly difficult to get pain-reducing drugs through clinical trials, but not because the drugs are necessarily getting worse.
Instead, they're finding that people's responses to placebos are getting stronger, and this is making it more difficult to prove a drug's advantage. According to Scientific American:
"The change in response to placebo treatments for pain, discovered by researchers in Canada, holds true only for US clinical trials. 'We were absolutely floored when we found out,' says Jeffrey Mogil, who directs the pain-genetics lab at McGill University in Montreal and led the analysis. 3
Simply being in a US trial and receiving sham treatment now seems to relieve pain almost as effectively as many promising new drugs."
Previous research has noted that the placebo response appears to be increasing in trials involving antidepressants and antipsychotics. Here, the placebo effect is rising across the world, not just in the US, which adds another layer to the mystery.
It was such findings that prompted researchers to investigate the strength of the placebo response in painkiller trials, because over the past decade more than 90 percent of drugs aimed at chronic pain have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials, suggesting something odd might be afoot.
MORE
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/22/growing-placebo-effect-thwarts-painkiller-development.aspx
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The Strange Growing Effectiveness of Placebos
October 26, 2015
It turns out that positive thinking—or just being an American—might have as much healing power as pharmaceuticals.
The placebo effect appears to be increasing, making it more difficult for drug manufacturers to determine whether their latest creations are actually doing patients any good. And a new study has shown that the phenomenon is most prevalent in the United States, according to the BBC.
Researchers at Canada’s McGill University found that just taking part in clinical trials in the United States has a healing effect. There’s no clear reason why this might be so, although the advertising to consumers of prescription drugs, which isn’t allowed in most other countries, might play a part. Researcher Jeffrey Mogil said that the size of the U.S. trials might also be a factor. Larger, well-funded trials might give the outward appearance to participants that the researchers are on to something.
Some patients also enroll in trials because of a financial benefit. They may exaggerate their symptoms to gain entrance to the trial, then as it continues, their “symptoms” disappear. That might be attributed by researchers to a placebo effect.
Sometimes placebos work even when a patient knows he or she is getting one. A study cited by Mercola.com reported that 60% of patients with irritable bowel syndrome who knew they were getting a placebo still reported a relief of symptoms, compared to only 35% who received no treatment at all.
http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/the-strange-growing-effectiveness-of-placebos-151026?news=857714
Why are placebos getting more effective?
20 October 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34572482
Growing Placebo Effect in US Thwarts Painkiller Development
As recently reported by Scientific American1 and Forbes,2 drug companies are finding it increasingly difficult to get pain-reducing drugs through clinical trials, but not because the drugs are necessarily getting worse.
Instead, they're finding that people's responses to placebos are getting stronger, and this is making it more difficult to prove a drug's advantage. According to Scientific American:
"The change in response to placebo treatments for pain, discovered by researchers in Canada, holds true only for US clinical trials. 'We were absolutely floored when we found out,' says Jeffrey Mogil, who directs the pain-genetics lab at McGill University in Montreal and led the analysis. 3
Simply being in a US trial and receiving sham treatment now seems to relieve pain almost as effectively as many promising new drugs."
Previous research has noted that the placebo response appears to be increasing in trials involving antidepressants and antipsychotics. Here, the placebo effect is rising across the world, not just in the US, which adds another layer to the mystery.
It was such findings that prompted researchers to investigate the strength of the placebo response in painkiller trials, because over the past decade more than 90 percent of drugs aimed at chronic pain have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials, suggesting something odd might be afoot.
MORE
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/22/growing-placebo-effect-thwarts-painkiller-development.aspx