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placebo
A Placebo’s Role in Modern Health Care
Perceived ethics can stand in the way of the positive effects of the use of placebos for healing patients.
Opioids No More Effective Than Placebo for Acute Neck and Back Pain: Study
Opioids can cause harm with only a short course of treatment, according to the study’s lead researcher.
A New Way of Looking at Placebos: An Entanglement Theory
The healing efficacy of placebos has risen exponentially in the past three decades. In the 1980s, the placebo effect (or response) was almost zero. Now, it accounts for more than 70 percent of an effect in a medical trial.
