7/09/2008

Pills, placebo and quality of life

A study by the Institute of Clinical Research of Duke University in Durham (USA), conducted with 7,600 patients suffering from chronic heart disease has shown that those who regularly took a drug as both a placebo twice suffered fewer complications than Skips shots of medication.

For researchers, people who follow it to the letter are also those that tend to obey the doctor's advice, like leaving alcohol and snuff and exercising, practices that also improve their quality of life.
Experts suspect that this "placebo effect" has more to do with the way of being of each person who submits to study with a particular pharmaceutical effect.

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