placebo

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These trials compared structured exercise programs with other activities, a placebo, or no active treatment.

From Science Daily

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