Placebo Effect May Account for Half of Drug's Efficacy

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 17:31 in Health & Medicine

Even when a medication works, half of its impact on a patient may be due to one aspect of the placebo effect: the positive message that a doctor provides when prescribing the treatment, according to a new study.

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