"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." [table-of-contents] stripped Lauren Quinn has had health-related anxiety for most of her life—and the ...

Many of us have no problem checking in on the status of our New Year’s resolutions to “walk more” or “sleep better,” and it’s all thanks to our trusty Fitbits, Apple Watches, and other wrist-sized ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the placebo effect. Patients who believe they have received an effective remedy tend to feel better and show improvement, even when the remedy is a sham treatment or ...

You've heard of the placebo effect: when positive thinking makes you believe your meds are working. Nocebo is the power of negative thinking. Wait, what? "Somebody tells you 'God, you look terrible, ...

A 26-year-old man once took 29 sugar pills that were inert or chemically inactive thinking they were antidepressants. Under normal circumstances, having these pills will produce no effects in the ...

You're no doubt aware of the placebo effect — the medication that can make you feel better, even though it doesn't really do anything. The word placebo has its origins in the Latin for "to please".

Recent surveys indicate a rise in “news avoidance”. The latest Reuters Institute poll found four in 10 people worldwide said they sometimes or often actively avoided the news – up from 29 per cent in ...

Ten years ago, researchers stumbled onto a striking finding: Women who believed that they were prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as women with similar risk factors who ...