Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Growing Power Of The Sugar Pill

Placebos play a useful role in drug testing: They help scientists determine just how effective a drug is. But a comparison of studies of antidepressants finds that patients find placebos twice as effective today as they did in the 1980s. Researchers aren't entirely sure why this is happening, but they say these findings could complicate medicine.

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