placebo

According to "Plato in Twelve Volumes" published by Harvard University Press, for headaches, Plato prescribed "a certain leaf, but there was a charm to go with the remedy; and if ...

Placebos can reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people know they are taking them, researchers report. ...

Researchers have developed a way to reliably predict which chronic pain patients will respond to a sugar placebo ...

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

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

The healing efficacy of placebos has risen exponentially in the past three decades. In the 1980s, the placebo ...

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

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