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Article: ALL PLACEBOS NOT CREATED ALIKE

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February 1, 2006
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Harvard Medical School issued the following press release:

The debate about the existence of a placebo effect has heated up over the past year as more and more lab experiments are detecting immediate physiological responses to placebos. A new study takes placebo investigations out of the lab and into a clinical trial, showing a discernible placebo effect over time, according to an article in the Feb. 1 British Medical Journal.

While researchers usually use placebos in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of a new treatment, this trial pitted one placebo against another.

"It's upside down research," said Ted Kaptchuk, assistant professor of medicine and associate director of the ...

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