How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

Many continue to worry about experiencing side effects from vaccines -- especially the COVID-19 vaccines -- but new data from a comprehensive meta-analysis suggests there is little to fear. The study ...

Over the past month or so, I have seen several advertisements for different modalities for pain relief. Seeing these advertisements, which featured devices such as TENS units and ultrasound machines, ...

The placebo effect is a fascinating phenomenon where patients experience real changes in their health after receiving a treatment that has no therapeutic effect. This effect highlights the powerful ...

Depression is one of the most widespread mental health disorders worldwide, affecting approximately 4% of the global ...

When you were a child and fell playing outside, a single bandage — a placebo of sorts — could take away the pain. The placebo effect has long been somewhat of a medical mystery. While researchers ...

Unfortunately, most cold and flu medicine fails to make you feel better in the long term. In fact, here are several cold and flu medicines that are little more than a placebo.

New research has found that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by engaging a distinct brain pathway, separate from the pathway activated by a placebo. The standalone analgesic effect that mindfulness ...