New Scientist on MSN11h
Fake pills ease PMS symptoms even when you know they're placebos
Women with premenstrual syndrome reported big improvements in their symptoms after taking placebo pills, despite knowing they ...
Placebo pills can improve women’s PMS symptoms
A Swiss trial found they were more effective than standard treatments for premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric ...
New Atlas5h
Unusual PMS treatment reduces symptom intensity by a whopping 79%
New research found that taking a placebo pill, knowing that it contains no active ingredients, reduced the intensity of ...
News Medical on MSN7h
Open-label placebo appears to reduce premenstrual symptoms, study suggests
Women affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS) appear to experience less intense and debilitating symptoms after taking ...
Science-Based Medicine6d
The use of placebo controls in clinical trials
The primary value of placebo controls in clinical trials is the minimization of bias.
The placebo effect can be good medicine, for pain and other problems
Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.
These Popular Treatments Don’t Work for Back Pain, According to New Research
Pooled data analysis shows that pain relief is only marginally better than placebo. A pooled analysis of existing research, ...
Time11d
A Pill to Prevent COVID-19 Shows Promise
They were then randomly assigned to receive either ensitrelvir or placebo pills for five days. Everyone in the study began taking their pills once a day within three days of when their housemate ...