The placebo effect, or the phenomenon of people feeling better while taking a fake drug just because they think they’re taking a real drug, has been proven time and time again. Now, a groundbreaking ...

A placebo is a substance or medical procedure that resembles an actual treatment but does not actually act on a disease or medical condition; in effect it is a fake treatment, offered for experimental ...

In October 2018, the BBC broadcast a fascinating documentary which followed the progress of an experiment with placebo treatment. Under the supervision of researchers from the University of Oxford, ...