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In fact, some impotence researchers assert that the success rates of prostaglandin may not be much better than the success rates of placebos.
Ineffective: chiropractic spinal manipulations did not seem to help with tension headaches; and acupuncture didn't do any better than placebos in the treatment of AIDS-related nerve damage.
(Ultimately, the Senate Labor Committee approved Satcher 12 to 5.) Johns Hopkins researchers suspended an Ethiopian study with placebos.
The cover story marvels at the placebo effect and wonders whether we should allow doctors to prescribe placebos.
Some quality control problems noted at the WP : 1) A story about trials of an experimental anti-autism drug is slugged by the paper "Treatment Counters Autism" even though the story goes on to explain that the drug worked no better in the studies than placebos given to the control group; 2) an AP story the paper runs about a credit card scam targeting senior military officers fails to mention that the Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday; 3) over a heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century, and millennium: "MOTHER DIED, BUT BOY, 9, KEPT MUM."