placebo

Sugar Pill Just Might Control Your Chronic Pain

Researchers have developed a way to reliably predict which chronic pain patients will respond to a sugar placebo pill based on brain anatomy and psychological characteristics. Doctors may one day ...

October 3, 2018BY Marla Paul
You Can Train Your Body to Think It’s Had Medicine

Listen to or download an audiobook of this story on SoundCloud and iTunes. Marette Flies was 11 when her immune system ...

December 14, 2017BY Jo Marchant
The New Placebo Effect

Medicine is much more than drugs, procedures, and surgeries.

November 14, 2016BY Conan Milner
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 ...

May 13, 2015BY Tara MacIsaac
How to Stimulate Your Placebo Response

A research study published in the British medical journal The Lancet, found that doctors who showed empathy and ...

January 18, 2015BY Frank Lipman
12 Things in Daily Life That Are Actually Placebos

Placebo is not just a medicine. There are countless placebos in our daily life that we often fail ...

December 29, 2014BY Jim Liao