You’ve likely heard of the placebo effect, but you might be less familiar with its opposite, called the nocebo effect. Placebos are medications or procedures that appear to be actual medical ...

In medicine, a placebo is a substance, pill, or other treatment that appears to be a medical intervention, but isn’t one. Placebos are particularly important in clinical trials, during which they’re ...

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Correspondence to Dr Fred Spence, University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; fs.spence{at}outlook.com The question of why more people in Glasgow were dying, and younger, ...

The placebo effect is a mysterious phenomenon that happens when someone’s medical symptoms are lessened through the power of suggestion and expectation – for instance if someone’s illness improves ...

A placebo is a medical treatment or procedure designed to deceive the participant of a clinical experiment. It does not contain any active ingredients but often still produces a physical effect on the ...