Amid doubts over a common decongestant, evidence suggests the placebo effect can still help people suffering from a cold.

At best, a highly effective non-opioid pain pill ... Though the drug worked better than a placebo, it didn’t work better than a commonly prescribed generic opioid. The company is waiting on ...

Johnson stated that "there’s never been a placebo-controlled study on childhood vaccines." Medical experts say the evidence his office provided takes a narrow view of what a placebo is. But even by ...

But Vertex stock plunged as a placebo showed a similar reduction. Please watch the video at Investors.com - Stocks Tank After Fed Rate Cut: Tesla, Wix.com, TJX In Focus Vertex's experimental oral ...

But that's not what the science shows. A recent small study looking at the characteristics of back pain sufferers who responded best to placebo treatment, found those who were most "aware" and ...

Objective: To compare loratadine with fexofenadine and placebo in relieving symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR). Design: A randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo-controlled ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s nonaddictive drug for lower back pain didn’t do better than a placebo in a midstage trial, causing the company’s shares to fall Thursday. Vertex, based in ...

Design and Setting: Prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, randomised trial of nicergoline 30mg twice daily and placebo administered for 3 months. After baseline evaluation ...

In making similar claims about placebo-controlled studies, vaccine skeptics often take a narrow view of what a “placebo” is, arguing it can only be water or saltwater. In reality, there’s a ...