The placebo effect has always sat on the strange side of medicine. Give someone a sugar pill, tell them it is a painkiller, ...

From sham surgeries to sugar pills, the placebo effect can work as well as real medicine, but the body relies on input from ...

In making similar claims about placebo-controlled studies, vaccine skeptics often take a narrow view of what a "placebo" is, arguing it can only be water or saltwater. In reality, there’s a larger ...

Over the past month or so, I have seen several advertisements for different modalities for pain relief. Seeing these advertisements, which featured devices such as TENS units and ultrasound machines, ...

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with gynecologic cancers that responded to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy receiving niraparib ...

Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said “yes,” congratulations, your brain is using its power to create a “placebo effect ...

New research shows that palliative patients with pancreatic cancer neither live longer nor experience improved quality of ...

Darbepoetin Alfa for the Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia: Disease Progression and Survival Analysis From Four Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trials Patients completed the Short ...