placebo

How your beliefs influence your life

More than 200 female students at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, were…

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The placebo effect

Forty patients with asthma, emphysema, or restrictive lung disease were given an inhaler that contained…

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How belief can drive recovery

When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, the placebo effect was frequently dismissed as ‘all…

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Do drugs work better if we believe in them?

It seems to me that they do – broadly speaking. Paying more for a simple…

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