Twelve of the fourteen enlisted primary care physicians finally agreed to participate. Our study sample consisted of eight general practitioners, two internists, one paediatrician and one psychiatrist ...

Dr. Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Harvard-wide program in placebo studies hosted at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. An advisory committee for ...

In the US Placebo is a small band. They had a minor hit with Pure Morning, and that's about it (I think they were also on a few soundtracks as well, but that's neither here nor there). I got into them ...

Many physicians reported several specific situations in which they encountered placebo effects ('… I hand him a glass of water, telling him that it contains a substance that will calm him down.