How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

Would a placebo make cancer worse? Will I know if I am given a placebo in a clinical trial? Get answers to your pressing ...

For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows ...

What if the biggest driver of the antidepressant “effect” isn’t the drug, but your expectation? Learn why the placebo effect can create real change and what it means for recovery.

A multicenter research effort in China conducted clinical trial testing of oral berberine for six months in diabetes-free ...

Unfortunately, most cold and flu medicine fails to make you feel better in the long term. In fact, here are several cold and flu medicines that are little more than a placebo.

Placebo is composing the music for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of the Bertolt Brecht play The Resistible Rise ...

A once-weekly injectable GIP/GLP-1 dual agonist conferred up to 22.5% weight loss at 48 weeks for adults with overweight or ...

Depression is one of the most widespread mental health disorders worldwide, affecting approximately 4% of the global ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

It’s well-established that placebo treatments, such as sugar pills, can prompt real reductions in symptoms for patients. But scientists have long struggled to understand exactly how the placebo effect ...