The results of a new scientific study indicate that distracting people with a difficult memory task and giving them a placebo are two different, but complementary, approaches to reducing pain response without the use of heavy drugs.
Previous neuroimaging studies had proposed that the placebo effect was a high-level... |
6 February 2012
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Patients who undergo a shunt operation are more likely to experience a reduction in the number and intensity of symptoms related to varied forms of dementia, scientists write in a new research paper.The team arrived at this conclusion after it conducted a series of studies on patients, which involved all of the parti... |
25 January 2011
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Scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, carried out a research that showed that vitamin D can accelerate the antibiotic treatment in patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB).TB patients have vitamin D deficiency (122/126 patients in the trial, or 97%), had inadequate levels of vitamin D ... |
6 January 2011
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You would think that if a placebo works it's because you have no idea that it is a placebo instead of a real drug, but a new research says that telling the truth is as effective as deception.Carried out by researchers at Harvard Medical School's Osher Research Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center... |
23 December 2010
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An international team of researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to discover the effects of acupuncture on the brain's perception and processing of the pain, and they concluded that acupuncture is effective in relieving pain.Thanks to the fMRI, they obtained pictures of the brain, while patients e... |
30 November 2010
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A new paper published in today's issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that there is no standard behind the placebo – the base reference for assessing study results.Most scientific research is actually comparing the results of a certain compound with the effects of a placebo, which looks like an acti... |
19 October 2010
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Research on the effects of an allergy drug on eosinophilic esophagitis concluded that the drug helped treat the cause of the throat condition but the symptoms remained.A group of researchers from the Mayo Clinic carried out the first controlled trial of swallowed fluticasone nasal spray, or Flonase, on people sufferi... |
18 October 2010
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The number of overweight and obese people increases every year, because of the more and more “comfortable lifestyle”, lack of exercise or bad food habits. And as gaining weight is much easier than losing it, slimming supplements producers are sitting on a gold mine. Overweight and obese people all over th... |
12 July 2010
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The placebo effect has been documented on numerous instances. It is most obvious in the field of medicine, where patients told that they were given drugs for their pain or diseases seem to get better even though the pill itself contained only sugar or flour. Such an instance was recently documented using advanced obs... |
17 October 2009
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The brain has a very curious way of "acting" sometimes. That's why we can even perceive as being "the real thing" what's in fact just a placebo, with positive or negative consequences. Researchers have been puzzled by the strong placebo effect in many persons. Now they have linked this to a brain nucleus al... |
19 July 2007
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