Placebo Effect is Real

A recent study from German researchers has shown that the placebo effect is physiological, not just psychological.
In other words, it’s not “all in the mind”!
The study showed that when the subjects expected a pain relieving cream to be effective, their pain was reduced by 25%. “When patients expect a remedy to be effective, the brain [...]

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This post was written by Jan on November 15, 2009 Comments (4)

Spine surgery procedure – no better than placebo

Hot off the presses!
A common spine surgery procedure known as vertebroplasty has been found in two studies to be no more effective than a sham procedure.
In vertebroplasty, bone cement is injected into a fractured vertebra (primarily compression fractures). This would certainly seem to be a good thing. The amazing thing is that the control group, [...]

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This post was written by David Morton on August 7, 2009 Comments (1)