Placebos have been studied more than any treatment in the history of medicine, yet they remain mysterious. I've been studying placebos for 20 years and I've done some of the key studies that have ...

The FDA is proposing the removal of phenylephrine, a popular nasal decongestant, in oral form from over-the-counter use. Here ...

Placebos are only acceptable when no proven treatment exists. The change has been prompted by a debate that began in 1997 when Peter Lurie, the deputy director of the Public Citizen Health ...

As governments worldwide move to restrict teenagers' access to smartphones and social media, a fierce scientific debate has ...

The only thing was that he'd been taking placebos; dummy pills - they contained nothing but ground rice. But they worked. "I just woke up one morning and I thought, hang about, I haven't got a ...

Placebos are a powerful way to mitigate bias because they ensure the participant does not know if they actually received the ...

The term comes from the Latin for “I shall please”. Once commonly prescribed by doctors, placebos are now used to test new drugs. A placebo may not contain active drug, but it is now known ...

Scanning the US election results, I realise that Trump and 1.4 billion Indians have something in common. We all believe in ...

Semaglutide shows promise in treating knee osteoarthritis by reducing pain and weight, offering a safe alternative to ...

The drug semaglutide is already proving incredibly effective in tackling diabetes (under the brand name Ozempic) and weight ...