A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...

Amid doubts over a common decongestant, evidence suggests the placebo effect can still help people suffering from a cold.

People seem to assume that expensive branded drugs will be less likely to cause them harm than their generic counterparts, ...

while the rest get fake treatments in the form of sugar pills that look and taste the same – these should invoke the same placebo effect, but not the drug’s biological effect. Trials of new ...

The Harvard doctors in the trial told her the pills were “placebo pills made of an inert substance, like sugar pills, that ...

The specific form the placebo takes isn't important -- it might be a sugar pill, a saline injection or even an invented therapy. What does appear to play a key role is that the person believes the ...

It involved taking a daily hormone pill for 21 days, followed by a placebo pill (usually made of sugar) for 7 days. During the week of placebo pills, you’d have your period. Today, there are ...