Without a true double-blind study ( which seems impossible in this case ), none of this would tell you anything useful at all.
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She had been taking 25 grams of soy powder every day, for example, until a recent double-blind study suggested 40 grams was optimal.
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Now, you have to have a double-blind study to believe your grandmother when she tells you ginger tea eases the pain of her arthritis.
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In medicine, finding statistically beneficial or disease-causing effects is part of the fabric of research, and blind studies have been used for decades.
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Consumers should be skeptical of any claims made for health-care products that haven't first been subjected to double blind studies, Rab says.
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Oxman is heading a double-blind study of 40, 000 Americans over 60, to be completed in 2004, to see whether this works.
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MIT researchers followed up with a double-blind study of Redux, in which neither the nurses nor the participants knew who was getting the active drug.
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In Toronto, rheumatologist Houpt is also doing a double-blind study on 100 patients, though he is testing glucosamine alone, not the combination product.
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George's double blind study of 12 people, published in the December 1997 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, was a bit less dazzling.
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But it is designed to help only a particular type of lower back pain, and results are not yet available from controlled, double-blind studies.
