Novo Nordisk said its diabetes pill Rybelsus showed cardiovascular benefits in a late-stage trial. The pill lowered the risk ...

If you tell a person that a headache is a common side effect of a particular medication, that person is more likely to report ...

Placebo pills can improve women’s PMS symptoms ... the potential for open-label placebos – which are typically sugar pills and have no active ingredients – to help with conditions such ...

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 ...

“Honesty is critical. We make it crystal clear: ‘This is a placebo, no active ingredient, [it’s ] like a sugar pill. It might work, it might not work. Improvement can be quick or gradual.’ It’s a ...

Indian herbalists make extravagant claims for ashwagandha. But recent research shows that it offers significant sexual ...

And it was at this point that we revealed to our volunteers that the supplement they’d been taking was a placebo pill – in other words, just a sugar pill. Our experiment helped show just how ...

Nobody complains that we have more cancer medicines available today than in the 1980s. Why should we complain about having ...