Twelve of the fourteen enlisted primary care physicians finally agreed to participate. Our study sample consisted of eight general practitioners, two internists, one paediatrician and one psychiatrist ...

Placebos typically serve as a control treatment in clinical trials to determine the efficacy of a novel intervention in a non-biased manner. Despite the widespread use of placebos in pharmaceutical ...

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 ...

Many physicians reported several specific situations in which they encountered placebo effects ('… I hand him a glass of water, telling him that it contains a substance that will calm him down.