Facts rarely get in the way of a good story. There is a foundational myth in placebo research that has been repeated over and over again, sometimes with inexplicable flourishes, often with the...
Against what does a vaccine need to be tested in the context of a clinical trial? The answer that pops immediately to mind is 鈥渁 placebo.鈥 In the medical sciences, things get compared to placebos...
Someone recently asked me if I had ever heard a patient complain that they could taste saline and medications when injected into their IV. Truth is, I had never heard of this before, but聽apparently...