Placebo Effect

Overstating the Placebo Effect

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.09.2012

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Psychotropic medications are no stranger to controversy, but lately there has been a surge in attacks on their efficacy.

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How Do Placebos Relieve Pain?

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.27.2012

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Scientists and doctors have been studying placebos for more than half a century. These inert "sugar pills" remain highly controversial, yet they are widely used in clinical treatment today -- especially in the area of pain management.

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How Belief Affects Our Health

Russ Gerber | Posted 02.21.2012

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Sooner or later we'll see for ourselves what Penny Sarchet and countless others have uncovered -- that what we take in, what we believe, has a correlation to our health. The days of thinking that the body operates independent of our beliefs about it are fading away.

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Should Health Care Providers Be Afraid of the 'Nocebo' Effect?

Matthew D. Erlich, M.D. | Posted 01.29.2012

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While some negative outcomes have nothing to do with patient expectations (adverse events are known risks with all treatments), the "nocebo effect" is especially pernicious because it can contaminate good care and is preventable.

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Pain? What Pain?

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.08.2011

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The idea that there's a mental component to pain is hardly an unfamiliar one. But the more you learn about it, the full extent to which our experience with pain depends on situations is surprising.

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How The Mind Makes Drugs Work Better

David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. | Posted 07.29.2011

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Reams of research now paint a picture that what we believe with regards to medication can have measurable effects on the body.

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Jesus The Healer

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.26.2011

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Recent studies suggest that placebo healing is real, and understanding it may shed light on how healers of the ancient past, such as Jesus, had such powerful positive effects.

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How To Stimulate Your Placebo Response

Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 11.17.2011

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After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...

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Homeopathy And The Christian Nation

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

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I say there are two factors that contribute to a good blog. First, good writing; second, you have to annoy somebody. I promise to do at least one of...

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Add This Health Care Solution to the Debate: Mexican and Latin American Folk Remedies for the Ultimate Do-It-Yourselfer

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seeing how the health care debate has devolved into shouting matches at town halls, I present you with cheap, alternative health care solutions for these troubled times.

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Fake It Till You Make It: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

wired.com | STEVE SILBERMAN | Posted 11.17.2011

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Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...

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Journalists Present Acupuncture Placebo As Cure

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 11.17.2011

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A flat Earth is not an equal proposition to a round one, and when a study shows that a placebo works as well as a medicine, it means that the medicine itself is probably a placebo.

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Pills, Placebos, and Prescription Drugs - Oh My!

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011

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It looks like pills are a popular subject this week. Yesterday, Newsweek dove in to the dangerous debate over placebo pills. No one is saying "posit...

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