placebo
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Liz Skrbkova, a spokeswoman for Novo Nordisk, said that trials for its drug Wegovy showed changes in muscle mass didn’t “significantly differ” from patients who took a placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
"The people who were taking the placebo injections, who were getting exactly the same support from the dieticians and everything only lost about 2.5% of their body weight," said Wilding.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
At the end of the study, the participants who took orforglipron kept more than 70% of their earlier weight loss off, while the placebo group kept around 38-50% off.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
For at least 15% weight loss, the figures were 46.8% versus 6.4%, while 28.6% of semaglutide users lost at least 20% of their body weight compared with 2.7% in the placebo group.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
As it happens, Denis Papin, who had qualified as a doctor, was the first to describe the placebo and the placebo effect, in a letter to Leibniz, 11 or 12 August 1704.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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