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Meanings of placebo effect in English

Russian
эффект плацебо
Portuguese
placebos
Catalan
efecte placebo
Spanish
sustancia placebo
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Substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value, which may encourage the body's chemical processes for relieving pain and a few other symptoms, but have no impact on the disease itself.

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эффект плацебо
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Examples for "placebo"
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Discussion: TPM produced significantly greater weight loss than placebo at all doses.
Pubmed
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Patients given placebo on top of standard drugs steadily worsened, she said.
Reuters
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Without a placebo group, clinical response data must be interpreted with caution.
Pubmed
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Double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges are the standard for diagnosis of food allergies.
Pubmed
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Patients received either CHM or placebo packages with a corresponding serial number.
Pubmed
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But few studies have shown how doctors use placebos in routine practice.
Reuters
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But 12 percent of those surveyed said placebos should never be used.
Reuters
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Let's not forget that placebos are medically useful, and doctors know it.
The Guardian
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Many studies have found homeopathic remedies are no more effective than placebos.
Reuters
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Fewer serious side effects, including infections, were reported for dupilumab than for placebos.
Reuters
Usage of placebo effect in English
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No doubt it was just a placebo effect, but I didn't care.
Riding rockets
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That's probably an exaggeration, or an example of the placebo effect.
Wired
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Photograph: Nina Roberts Could these impressive results be the placebo effect?
The Guardian
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Toxicity was mild in both groups with considerable placebo effect noted.
Pubmed
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And then there is the placebo effect, which has always bedeviled nutrition research.
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto
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This is a placebo effect, but the pills have gone now.
Bad science
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The placebo effect, you see, kicks in on a sliding scale.
The Guardian
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The placebo effect is well documented and not even very mysterious.
The god delusion
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Yes, I do believe there is a benefit beyond that of the placebo effect.
The Guardian
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Conventional medicine explains away any success that might attend homeopathy as a placebo effect.
The Irish Times
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We've known in the healing arts of a placebo effect.
The Secret
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And how powerful is a placebo effect accentuated by having dropped so much cash?
Radio NZ
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Conclusions: Whereas negative instructions induced a nocebo effect, no placebo effect emerged after positive instructions.
Pubmed
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She says the reason people might find the RICE system useful is a placebo effect.
Radio NZ
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Yet despite this huge placebo effect, the fact that the study was positive was amazing.
Reuters
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He said this was in part due to the sizeable placebo effect in this trial.
Reuters
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