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Ottawa doctors' high-risk MS treatment yields 'impressive' results, Lancet finds
- cpncrunch 10y agoInteresting trial, but I'm wondering how much of it was a placebo effect.
- vmorgulis 10y agoIn general, it's 30%. The results are over (69%). Very promising.
- cpncrunch 10y agoYou can't really say that in general it is "30%". Is that for multiple sclerosis? What type of intervention? Generally the placebo effect will vary depending on the type of intervention. A very novel and invasive intervention like this will have a high placebo effect. Given that psychological treatment alone can reduce the fatigue in MS to below that of healthy controls (van Kessel 2008), it's likely that the placebo effect plays a large role.