placebo

Example Sentences

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When the researchers reviewed reports of side effects, they found that people taking statins reported nearly the same rates of most symptoms as those taking a placebo.

From Science Daily

GP Ben Davis also warns that TRT can have a placebo effect, leaving patients sometimes taking and paying for medication privately, that they do not need.

From BBC

It argued that trials giving one group a placebo or not treating them were only acceptable when no proven treatment existed, something that was not the case with the hepatitis B birth dose vaccine.

From BBC

While researchers do not yet know who is receiving active stimulation and who is receiving placebo, they say early signs are promising.

From BBC

Even those who swear by the broccoli concoction say they can’t be sure that they are benefiting from anything other than a placebo effect.

From The Wall Street Journal