Creatine supplementation improved several measures of muscle function in patients with fibromyalgia in a small randomized trial, but most symptoms didn't improve.
Right: file this paper from the JAMA under “Properly Odd”. It’s a proposal that nonadherence to a treatment regime be classed as a treatable medical condition in its own right. No, really. Look at the title: “Medication Nonadherence: A Diagnosable and Treatable Medical Condition”. Starting from the fairly straightforward premise that non-adherence to treatment regimes is “a [...]
Post by Julian Savulescu Cross-posted from the Practical Ethics blog, and relating to this paper in the JME. Andrew Culliford, whose story is featured in the Daily Mail, is one of the estimated 7 in 100,000 people living with Motor Neuron disease, a progressive degenerative disease which attacks muscles, leaving those affected eventually unable even to [...]
Cues and associations given to people affected their responses to placebos and active treatments in a crossover trial, suggesting that the placebo effect depends more on "state" than "trait."