The ‘placebo effect’ is getting even stronger with time in the US, study finds

In clinical trials designed to test the effects of drugs, researchers randomly assign one of two courses of treatment to study participants. The first group gets the experimental medication, and the second group (called the control group) is unwittingly given a placebo – a pill that intentionally does nothing at all.
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