When you read about medical research studies, you often see the term “place” used Since our center is very active in clinical research, the question of placebo comes up a lot from our prospective study volunteers so I though maybe explaining placebo and its role in research would be useful...

A just released survey of 679 internists and rheumatologists, chosen at random from a national list, reports that more than half of responding physicians used fake medicines - placebos - to treat patients with tough to treat conditions relying on the placebo effect to make them feel better...

We have all heard stories of how people who were afflicted with serious diseases prayed to God and were healed...

As long as medical research has existed, it has been known that a fake treatment, made from an inactive substance such as sugar, distilled water, or saline (salt water), can have a "placebo” effect...

Biologic therapy has revolutionized our approach to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) Less than 10 years ago, the best we could hope for was to “modify disease” or slow it down and also help with symptoms...

The French psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine was quoted in theNew Scientist as having made the astonishing admission that something like 35-40 per cent of all official prescriptions given patients are ‘impure’ placebos...

The power of your mind over functions of your body is widely acknowledged Medical studies that measure the effectiveness of treatment have proved that patients often improve even when the pill they are taking is only a sugar pill...

There is an interesting discovery that points to the fact that most diseases are a matter of choice, not a matter of fact, as with all things in life...

Ninety confirmed painful sensation patients were assigned in an open trial to either routine traditional maintenance or a 10-workweek relaxation and emphasis reduction programme...

If I were to place three apples on a table in front of you and asked you to choose one to eat, you probably wouldn’t have much difficulty selecting one...