Definition of placebo effect
: improvement in the condition of a patient that occurs in response to treatment but cannot be considered due to the specific treatment used
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This stuff, along with crystals and horoscopes, joins a long list of things that have never been proven to have much value beyond a placebo effect.
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So the researchers really have no idea how the trained placebo effect is working in humans.
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Some studies have shown the infusions have no more than a placebo effect and are medically unnecessary.
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But among both prescribers and non-prescribers, 71 percent of survey takers agreed that homeopathy could effectively generate a placebo effect.
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Scientists and health experts have repeatedly denounced homeopathy as quackery and noted that any reported benefits are down to nothing more than the placebo effect.
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About 21 percent of doctors who prescribed homeopathic treatments did so explicitly to achieve placebo effect.
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Scientists and health experts have repeatedly denounced homeopathy as quackery and noted that any reported benefits are down to nothing more than the placebo effect.
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Scientists and health experts have repeatedly denounced homeopathy as quackery and noted that any reported benefits are down to nothing more than the placebo effect.
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First Known Use of placebo effect
1902
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placebo effect
medical Definition of placebo effect
: improvement in the condition of a patient that occurs in response to treatment but cannot be considered due to the specific treatment used
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