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2 unusual facts about Placebo


Junior Sanchez

His remixing and production skills are in demand by artists, including Madonna, Gorrilaz, Daft Punk, Placebo, Shakira, Les Rythmes Digitales, and Róisín Murphy.

Raftside

Since 2007, the year in which Filip Markiewicz produced the album Opinion Lieder in collaboration with drummer Antoine Lejeune, Raftside became a project integrating six rock musicians on stage and played at many festivals where the group had the opportunity to share the stage with Placebo, Kaiser Chiefs and Daft Punk.


100% Records

100% initially dealt purely with product management and distribution (both UK and Internationally) working with artists such as Robyn, Placebo, Moby, Sigur Rós and The Gossip.

AC Acoustics

Victory Parts was released in 1997 and the band promoted it through tours with Embrace, Stereophonics, dEUS and Placebo (Brian Molko was a champion of the band and often wore a Stunt Girl T-shirt, including on Placebo's Top of the Pops appearance for Nancy Boy).

Active placebo

In a 2005 study assessing the effects of these painkillers on neuropathic pain, Lorazepam was chosen as an active placebo because it is not a painkiller but it does cause sleepiness and can cause dizziness.

Clonidine is now finding more use as an active placebo for narcotics as well.

AURORA trial

The AURORA trial (A Study to Evaluate the Use of Rosuvastatin in Subjects on Regular Hemodialysis: An Assessment of Survival and Cardiovascular Events) was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study investigating the use of rosuvastatin in the prevention of cardiovascular disease among patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis.

Cada Día

Cada Día (Eng.: Each Day) is a song written by Stefan Olsdal (band member of Placebo) and David Amen, on Olsdal's side project Hotel Persona.

Crossover study

A crossover clinical trial is a repeated measures design in which each patient is randomly assigned to a sequence of treatments, including at least two treatments (of which one "treatment" may be a standard treatment or a placebo).

Damian Taylor

Taylor's time as a co-producer in remix teams for UNKLE, Adam Freeland, and Guy Sigsworth (Heavy Rotation) as well as a producer of remixes under both his own name and the Stone Lions moniker have earned him a Grammy nod, remixing tracks of artists such as Arcade Fire, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Björk, Placebo, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, and Metallica.

Differential psychology

For example, in evaluating the effectiveness of a new therapy, the mean performance of the therapy in one treatment group might be compared to the mean effectiveness of a placebo (or a well-known therapy) in a second, control group.

Dyshidrosis

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study by the University Medical Center Groningen reported that dishydrosis outbreaks on the hands increased significantly among those allergic to house dust mites, following inhalation of house dust mite allergen.

Fostamatinib

In patients with high inflammatory burden, measured by levels of C-reactive protein, ACR20 was achieved by a significantly higher portion of those in the fostamatinib group (42%) versus the placebo group (26%).

Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome is a funk album by Parliament, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music).

Ghinzu

The band started to tour Europe in spring 2009, playing several dates in France with Placebo as well as big summer festivals such as Rock Werchter, Eurockéennes and Paleo Festival.

Hy's law

The drug causes hepatocellular injury, generally shown by more frequent 3-fold or greater elevations above the upper limits of normal (ULN) of ALT or AST than the (nonhepatotoxic) control agent or placebo.

John Henry Schwarz

She won FDA approval for a placebo-controlled pilot study on 50 veterans.

MCD Productions

The company has hosted U2 before 246,000 over 3 shows in Croke Park, 135,000 for Robbie Williams 2003 and 107,000 for Red Hot Chili Peppers 2004 in the Phoenix Park, to bringing together David Bowie, Placebo and Talvin Singh for an event in Dublin.

Michael Baum

Some 160 years after Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, an essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, we are still debating whether homeopathy is a placebo or not...

N.A.M.B.

The album was mastered in April 2009 by Bunt Stafford Clark (also known for producing albums for Cher, Graham Coxon, Elbow, Placebo, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Alison Moyet) and was released in October 2009 on the British label Monotreme Records (65daysofstatic, Barzin).

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

In the Pioglitazone versus Vitamin E versus Placebo for the Treatment of Nondiabetic Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (PIVENS) trial, for patients with NASH but without diabetes mellitus, the use of very high dosages of vitamin E (800 IU/day) for four years was associated with a significantly higher rate of improvement than placebo (43% vs. 19%) in the primary outcome.

Reality Serum

'Trans-urban' is a new genre which is a unique blend of Alternative Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock music... fans of Gary Numan, Cake, Tricky, Linkin Park, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Meat Beat Manifesto, Crazy Town, Monster Magnet, etc., will definitely be intrigued.

Shirehorses

As part of their BBC Radio 1 shows, the pair produced pastiches of chart songs, such as "You're Gormless", a parody of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous", "Lardy Boy", a parody of Placebo's "Nancy Boy", and "Why Is It Always Dairylea", spoofing Travis's "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?", using the band names 'Baby bloke', 'Gazebo' and 'Travisty' respectively.

Svetol

In April and September 2012, The Dr. Oz Show featured green coffee extract, and conducted its own placebo-controlled study as to its efficacy.

The Kissaway Trail

The band have cited influences to their music include The Beach Boys, Granddaddy, Daniel Johnston, Placebo and Sonic Youth, amongst others.

Third/Sister Lovers

"Holocaust" was also covered by Placebo on the band's single for Slave to the Wage in 2000 and can also be found on their compilation Covers.

Tiffany Vollmer

She was the associate producer of the half hour short, Placebo (2006) (co-starring three of her fellow FUNimation VAs Laura Bailey, Meredith McCoy, and Mike McFarland).

Tofacitinib

In a tofacitinib monotherapy study, the ACR score improved by at least 20% (ACR-20) in 67% of patients versus 25% who received placebo; and a study that combined the drug with methotrexate achieved ACR-20 in 59% of patients versus 35% who received methotrexate alone.

WCIP

We Come in Pieces, the 2011 live DVD by the alternative rock band Placebo.

Woodsy Owl

Woodsy Owl was parodied in the 2010 South Park episode "Insheeption", as well as mentioned incorrectly as the "drug owl" the 2011 Archer episode Placebo Effect.


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