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What is the placebo effect?

Definition

The placebo effect

The placebo effect is a mysterious phenomenon that happens when someone’s medical symptoms are lessened through the power of suggestion and expectation.
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Mind

Synchronic review: A genuinely hair-raising time travel thriller

Culture

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Health

Potent new antifungal discovered in the microbiome of marine animals

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Lawyers and protestors

Health

Record $8 billion payout won’t turn back the clock on US opioid crisis

Analysis

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Health

Minimum alcohol pricing could reduce alcohol-linked deaths in Canada

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Health

Fatal cardiac arrests could be hiding opioid overdose deaths in the US

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Modafinil

How South American drug cartels get around coronavirus lockdowns

Health

How South American drug cartels get around coronavirus lockdowns

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Dexamethasone

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Dexamethasone

Goats

Health

Genetically modified goats can produce cancer drugs in their milk

Genetically modified goats can make the bowel cancer drug cetuximab in their milk, which could cut its high cost and allow more people to use it

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Hydroxychloroquine

Video

Mitul Mehta: Brain scanners can help revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Video

Definition

Remdesivir

Humans

How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

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