Article: Placebo, deceit and complementary/alternative medicine

Transcript: Profile: Using the placebo effect in ...
Sounds Like Science (NPR);  July 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 Profile: Using the placebo effect in alternative medicine Host: IRA FLATOW Time ... reports on the role of the placebo effect in alternative medicine. REBECCA PERL reporting: The placebo effect occurs when someone gets ...

Article: The placebo effect quantified: how the placebo ...
Nutraceuticals World;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... be placebo-controlled? Because the placebo effect for subjectively reported symptoms such ... determining what variables impact the placebo effect. In general, a larger placebo effect is seen with: * High subject expectation ...

Article: The Placebo Effect and Alternative Therapies.
Alternative Medicine Alert;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... explained by the placebo effect. Alternative medicine includes therapies ... the most of the placebo effect..sup.1 Such ... Complementary and Alternative Medicine to sponsor a workshop on the placebo effect that received ...

Article: Reassessing Our Investment In the Placebo Effect
The Washington Post;  June 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... bullish on the placebo effect. One is ... Center for Alternative Medicine Research ... there is no placebo effect, there shouldn ... news on the placebo effect as an overdue ... Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

Article: Pondering the Placebo Effect: Why do sham ...
Newsweek;  December 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Complementary and Alternative Medicine is now supporting ... squarely on the placebo effect. Besides demystifying the placebo effect, this research ... complementary and alternative medicine. Do CAM therapies ... larger dose of placebo effect than mainstream ...

Article: Renewed respect for placebo effect
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... suggests that the placebo effect is genuine and that ... of treatment. The placebo effect is widely used in ... healing and many alternative medicine methods. Unfortunately ... the existence of a placebo effect. The strongest scientific ...

Article: The biological basis of the placebo effect
The Scientist;  December 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... hardwiring of the placebo effect-that is, the impact ... biological basis of the placebo effect has potentially wide ... Complementary and Alternative Medicine's division of extramural ... medications. "[The placebo effect] is crushing whole ...