The placebo effect is a mysterious phenomenon that happens when someone’s medical symptoms are lessened through the power of suggestion and expectation – for instance if someone’s illness ...

New research presented at the 2025 European Congress of Psychiatry reveals that the use of cannabidiol (CBD) cannabis extract ...

For decades, the placebo effect — the phenomenon where a patient’s condition improves after receiving an inert treatment, often a sugar pill, because they believe it to be real medication ...

A probiotic mixture reduced fever duration among young children with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), a placebo-controlled ... Of these kids, 26% were receiving antibiotics at enrollment.

In some types of birth control pills, the last week of the pack usually consists of inactive or placebo pills. These pills do not contain any hormones. There are many different types of birth ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...