The placebo effect has always sat on the strange side of medicine. Give someone a sugar pill, tell them it is a painkiller, ...

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is ...

Statin come with heavy baggage. I decided to treat a knowledge gap using my own body in a blinded crossover experiment..

From sham surgeries to sugar pills, the placebo effect can work as well as real medicine, but the body relies on input from ...