placebo
Example Sentences
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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.
The results of such trials aren’t weighed against a placebo but instead something else—often how patients’ disease has historically progressed without the treatment.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
