This was necessary because the pain was long lasting, and so the researchers needed to have a way of differentiating between what the body was doing naturally to counteract the pain and the contribution made by the false drug.

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It got off on a macho, but false, premise: that the path out was by mutual pain: raising taxes and cutting entitlements.

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Patients with high BMIs or with chest pain or pressure at presentation were less likely to have a false-positive activation.

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