Although placebos have played a critical role in medicine and clinical research for more than 70 years, it has been a mystery why these inactive treatments help to alleviate symptoms in some patients - and not others. Now researchers have for the first time identified genetic differences between...
Placebos are "dummy pills" often used in research trials to test new drug therapies and the "placebo effect" is the benefit patients receive from a treatment that has no active ingredients. Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice. But whether or not...
The Placebo Effect is rarely what people think it is, though it is often what people believe it to be. Unconvinced? Check it out.
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Yes, it does matter what is in a placebo (as well as how it is administered, and so on) because the placebo is an important part of the experimental protocol used in pharmaceutical research. Before we get to why this question has even been raised, and an interesting point or two about it, lets...
I'm trying to write my first book and I called it The Placebo.Please tell me what you think and if its good. (Remember,I'm 11,so it might not be good!
Chapter One: The Idea
"I can't remember the dates!"
"Lets try again. What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?"
"1998?"
"What? He...