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by David Bradley

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Keep taking the pills

News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000904-05

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4 September 2000

LONDON, September 4. Clinical trials that use a heart patient's 'quality of life' as the only measure of the success of their treatment may skew results because of a significant placebo effect, according to researchers at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam last week.

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