Americans like their placebos. (Image via AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Figure
this one out: The fake drugs we know as placebos seem to be getting
more and more effective in the US. That strange finding comes out of a
new analysis in the journal Pain, which looked at medical studies going back to 1990.
It
turns out that people who take placebos in studies today experience a
30 percent decrease in pain levels, a decrease that has dramatically
increased from nearly a quarter century ago, say researchers out of
McGill University in a press release.
The
scientists theorize that people today have higher expectations about
drugs, and when they’re participating in a big, fancy study — studies
have-READ MORE-https://www.yahoo.com/health/something-weird-is-happening-with-placebos-in-180511779.html
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