Placebo

It's just a placebo.

It's only a placebo.

We found no evidence to support a beneficial effect on pain, function, and quality of life of ultrasound over placebo in patients with ultrasound-proven plantar fasciitis 6 weeks following treatment.

Both nocebo and placebo effects are presumably psychogenic.

The patients participating in the drug trial don't know if they're receiving the drug or the placebo.

The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect.

Even if faith were a placebo, I would rather have it than not.

In fact, it is even possible for a patient’s response to a drug product to vary based on changes in the physical attributes of the drug, referred to as the placebo or nocebo effects.

All of the volunteers will be counseled about how to prevent HIV, but investigators want to see whether those who get the vaccine, as opposed to those who get a dummy solution called a placebo, remain uninfected.

The trial, reported in the journal The Lancet, took place in June 2015. None of the participants had received a flu vaccine during the previous influenza season. The participants were divided into four groups. In one group the patch was administered by a health care provider, in the second it was self-administered by each participant, a third group received the vaccine via injection and a fourth group got a placebo.

The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.

The trials overall showed some but limited effectiveness, and in one of the largest and longest trials, the placebo performed better in treating spasticity, pain and bladder dysfunction, Dr. Bowling wrote.

There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.