11 Surprising Facts About Placebos

Monday, June 3, 2013 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Placebos are sometimes explained as "dummy" treatments that don't have health benefits. However, the placebo effect is crucial to researchers' understanding of whether medications work.

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