Sunday, January 23, 2011

Placebos work-even without deception

It has long believed was that the placebo effect works only because people believe that you are taking a real drug.  But a new study leaves doubt on this assumption.  Placebo may work even when they are managed without deception.

Although placebo included non-active substances, patients are often respond. In fact, many American doctors give-perhaps as many as 50 percent-secretly placebo of their patients.  Because this practice is ethically questionable, decided a group of researchers, explore, whether or not the power of placebo without confidentiality can be used.

Science daily reports:

"" "... 80 Patients suffering irritable bowel (IBS) syndrome were divided into two groups: the controls a group receive no treatment, while the other group a regime of placebo erhielt-honest - described as" sugar pills... at the end of the study ", almost twice as many with placebo reported relief... also on other outcome measures, who is the placebo doubled their prices improve to a level similar to the effects of the most powerful IBS treated patients appropriate symptom drugs."


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