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Are a Popular Doping Drug's Effects All in the Mind?

sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)

Many athletes credit drugs with improving their performance, but some of them may want to thank their brain instead. Mounting evidence suggests that the boost from human growth hormone (HGH), an increasingly popular doping drug, might be caused by the placebo effect.

In a new double-blind trial funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in which neither researchers nor participants knew who was receiving HGH and who was taking a placebo, the researchers asked participants to guess whether or not they were on the real drug

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Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's but experts worry

sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (news.yahoo.com)

Alzheimer's patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and their families

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Anti-HIV gel trial fails

sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

Carraguard, the first anti-HIV microbicide to make it to the end of phase III clinical trials has failed to prevent transmission of HIV. The seaweed-derived vaginal gel microbicide was tested in 6,202 women in South Africa. Half the women were given Carraguard gel, and the other half received a placebo gel. They were all also given given condoms. Over the course of the trial, the researchers recorded 134 new infections in the Carraguard group and 151 in the placebo group, but the difference was not statistically significant.

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Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

yangjane submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.reuters.com)

Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers told AIDS vaccine volunteers who got the active shot and who got a dummy injection.They had already begun counseling volunteers that they could be at higher risk of HIV, a fatal and incurable virus that causes AIDS.

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