sugar pill
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Neither the patient nor the clinician working with them knows whether the treatment is “real,” since a clinician aware that they’re handing out a sugar pill might unwittingly treat participants differently.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026
The placebo may be an injectable saline solution, or water, or a sugar pill.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
The trial shows that, over an 18-month period, patients receiving the drug declined at a slower rate than those receiving a placebo, which, in this case, was a dummy infusion rather than a sugar pill.
From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023
He published those results in 2017, noting that rigorous studies were needed, in which some patients would be randomly assigned to take minoxidil and others a sugar pill.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
And in the next story you shall hear how the doctor cured the donkey with a little sugar pill.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by Cory, David
