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The efficiency of seeking a rigorous efficacy signal before moving on to larger-scale trials (and exposing as few subjects as possible to drugs that might not work or turn out to be toxic) is a valid ethical reason for using placebo controls, provided subjects are not exposed to undue risks of harm from withholding established treatment [2].
4 ± 0.6 g for the corticosterone implant group; food intake of 4.3 ± 0.1 g/day for the placebo group compared to 4.1 ± 0.5 g/day for the corticosterone implant group), although epididymal adipose tissue depot was slightly smaller in the corticosterone implant group (0.
Symptoms in zinc takers disappeared after 4.4 days, compared with 7.6 days for those in the placebo group.
The students and professors of Harvard Law School would recognize this as the placebo effect--if they had gone to medical school as their mothers really wanted.
For both there were negative numbers needed to harm (-11 and -12 respectively), showing that for every 11 or 12 patients given rofecoxib, one fewer was nauseous or vomited than with placebo.