Tag: drug trials
Antipsychotic Trials Show Increasing Placebo Response and Declining Drug Response
A new review of antipsychotic trials conducted over the last 24 years finds that the placebo response rate is steadily increasing, and drug response is decreasing.
âDrug Trials Not Reported in Line with Ethical and Legal Demandsâ
âDecisions about the effectiveness of drugs are being made with incomplete information because results of almost three-quarters of clinical trials are still not published...
âSecond Patient Dies in Zafgen Obesity Drug Trialâ
Two patients have now died while taking the drug beloranib in an obesity drug trial. Both patients were in the active arm of the study and had received the drug rather than a placebo. Zafgen did not say whether it believed the drug had caused the blood clotting in the lungs that led to the patientâs death.
