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Meanings of placebos 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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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
Usage of placebos in English
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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
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I would point out, though, that even placebos can be taken too far.
The Guardian
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When placebos are powerful, actual drugs often fail to best them.
Reuters
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Certain personalities are more receptive to treatment by placebos than others.
The new yorker
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That is why double-blind drug trials must use placebos as controls.
The god delusion
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That compared with such improvement in only 3 percent of those receiving placebos.
Reuters
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Cancer cannot be cured by homeopathic placebos, but small pains, perhaps.
The Guardian
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Thirty-eight percent receiving placebos reported that level of symptom relief.
Reuters
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We all know that placebos work admirably in numerous cases.
A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
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Video clips of people cheerfully munching expensive placebos went viral.
The Guardian
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Definitely it doesn't look like antidepressants are placebos, he concluded.
Reuters
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But placebos don't help people recover from diseases like cancer.
Wired
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