Browsing: placebo effect

For more than 250 years, physicians have used placebos as a deceptive way of placating patients who demand a treatment…

Even though placebos – sugar pills containing no active pharmaceutical ingredient – are considered virtually harmless, a new study found…

Millions of Americans take an antidepressant daily. But a growing volume of research is indicating the pills may only provide…

Giving people a choice among medications they can take to treat a certain condition may not only result in a…

In  1998, Pfizer introduced Viagra to treat male erectile dysfunction (ED), and the “little blue pill,” though not the blockbuster…