Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos. But How Well Do They Work?
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An Australian researcher argues that the medical community has enshrined placebos as “mysterious and highly effective” in…
An Australian researcher argues that the medical community has enshrined placebos as “mysterious and highly effective” in…
By Laura Specker…
Le potentiel des placébos, des "médicaments" qui n'ont pas de principe actif, est bien connu, mais les raisons exactes de leur…
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German students who knowingly took inactive placebo pills tended to report lower levels of test anxiety two weeks later…
By Christian…
One of my favourite subjects. I wrote a lot in the Patient Paradox about placebos. I don’t think we need placebos to get what…
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Is it only religion that feeds and reassures the gullible, no matter what catastrophes strike?When a baby is born with serious…
Плацебо эффективно для лечения усталости, возникающей во время ремиссии онкологических заболеваний, — даже в том случае, когда па…
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With evidence mounting that many minor operations owe their success to the placebo effect, is it time to call a halt to some…
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A new study published in Pain found that individuals being treated with open-label placebos showed significant reductions in…
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Patients felt less pain, even when they were told they were taking a dummy pill.
Back when advocates of “alternative” medicine were busily trying to legitimize their quackery by first renaming it “complementary…