"For many years, placebos have been deffined by their inert content and their use as controls in clinical trials and
treatments in clinical practice. Recent research shows that placebo effects are genuine psychobiological events
attributable to the overall therapeutic context, and that these effects can be robust in both laboratory and clinical
settings. There is also evidence that placebo effects can exist in clinical practice, even if no placebo is given.
Further promotion and integration of laboratory and clinical research will allow advances in the ethical use of
placebo mechanisms that are inherent in routine clinical care, and encourage the use of treatments that stimulate
placebo effects."
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"Mainstream medicine has tended to dismiss or ignore the placebo effect. Drug companies try to minimize it when conducting clinical trials." http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0329/opinions-placebo-harv...
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Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects [ Lancet 2010; 375: 686–95 ] PDF : http://www.bioethics.nih.gov/departmentpubs/Miller%202010%20...
"For many years, placebos have been deffined by their inert content and their use as controls in clinical trials and treatments in clinical practice. Recent research shows that placebo effects are genuine psychobiological events attributable to the overall therapeutic context, and that these effects can be robust in both laboratory and clinical settings. There is also evidence that placebo effects can exist in clinical practice, even if no placebo is given. Further promotion and integration of laboratory and clinical research will allow advances in the ethical use of placebo mechanisms that are inherent in routine clinical care, and encourage the use of treatments that stimulate placebo effects." ..