Chauke says some of the packs were accidentally filled with hormone-free placebo pills. "There is a particular batch that we were notified of... Normally a birth control pill will have active ...

Background: In a number of drug and psychotherapy comparative trials, psychotherapy-placebo combination has been assumed to represent psychotherapy. Whether psychotherapy plus pill placebo is the ...

Apparently, the pharmaceutical and biotech giant mistakenly filled a “limited number” of packs with 24 hormone-free placebo pills instead of the 24 actual hormone tablets used for contraception.

Shares of Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VKTX) jumped 22% Monday morning after the biotech firm reported promising results for its experimental obesity pill ... those taking a placebo, the company ...

Drug manufacturers are racing to develop an oral version of popular weight loss injectables like Ozempic, and early studies ...

The present report represents the first systematic empirical examination of the effect of adding pill placebo to psychotherapy. It found that, for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia ...

A pack of birth control pills typically includes 21 or 24 pills with hormones and seven or four placebo pills. During the placebo pill week, bleeding occurs. To keep the bleeding from happening ...

The abortion pill is a nonsurgical option to end a pregnancy. Cramping and bleeding are signs that can mean the abortion was successful. Further tests can confirm whether the abortion pill worked.

AstraZeneca Plc said its experimental obesity pill was well tolerated by patients with type-2 diabetes as it presented data from several studies testing its three new weight-loss medicines. The ...

According to reports, there has already been a surge in demand for mifepristone, a.k.a. the abortion pill. With that, it’s understandable to wonder if you should stock up. Of course, there’s ...

A "game-changer" pill is to be offered to tens of thousands of smokers in England who are trying to quit. Varenicline can be more effective than nicotine-replacement gum or patches, and as ...