Over the past month or so, I have seen several advertisements for different modalities for pain relief. Seeing these advertisements, which featured devices such as TENS units and ultrasound machines, ...

For decades, the placebo effect — the phenomenon where a patient’s condition improves after receiving an inert treatment, often a sugar pill, because they believe it to be real medication — has ...

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The placebo effect is a powerful concept that has been proven over and over again in many different studies. For those who don’t know, it is a concept where if someone thinks something is going to ...

There is a saying in medicine that goes double for psychiatry: "You shall not lie." So the question is: Is it possible to prescribe a placebo without lying? There are two kinds of placebo: a pure ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the placebo effect. Patients who believe they have received an effective remedy tend to feel better and show improvement, even when the remedy is a sham treatment or ...