Monday 7 November 2016

The Placebo Effect: Is There Something In It After All?

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The placebo effect remains one of the most baffling mysteries in medicine. The idea that a useless sugar pill or harmless saline injection could result in a measurable improvement in a patient's symptoms, sometimes as good as taking an active drug, has been so hard to explain that some have even doubted whether it can be real.

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