placebo

"Ian Harris explains that more than half of commonly performed surgical operations may be placebos. Adequate studies using a blinded control group are essential." "Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled...

Copy and paste link https://medium.com/beingwell/placebos-can-fool-your-mind-but-not-your-body-75c8a66790f7

A useful checklist for specifying the nature and intent of trial placebos alongside the TIDieR Template for Intervention Description and Replication https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003294 One of the lead authors posted a Covid-related discussion here...

I've just seen on Facebook that Ashok Gupta (of the 'Gupta Process') has released a 'package' called the 10 day coronovirus challenge. He doesn't claim that his techniques (mediation, NLP, neural retraining etc. I think) can prevent you getting the virus in so many words but I think he very much...

Free full text: http://gacetamedicademexico.com/frame_esp.php?id=322

Interesting article about overturning the use of placebo in clinical trials by relying on real-world data instead, to essentially use the patient population as control. It sadly sidesteps some facts about how the placebo-controlled part is sometimes omitted already without properly acknowledging...

Spoiler: the study measures subjective outcomes in response to observable behaviors that would bias their expectations. Who is writing for NPR? These days they are as lazy as the rest. Nature Human Behavior: Socially transmitted placebo effects https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0749-5

"A new book, The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief, by the journalist Melanie Warner, sees Dumbo’s feather as an analogy for alternative medicine. The analogy is imperfect, but the idea is that alternative medicine providers persuade...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-weird-power-of-the-placebo-effect-explained

If certain researchers have a tendency to discount patient testimony, does that mean these researchers have the same problem as vets in discerning when a patient has been harmed or helped? I came across this article from Sceptic Vet, through a convoluted web-surf that started with me reading...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02317/full

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html

This paper is of interest. https://sci-hub.se/10.1097/01.psy.0000156969.76986.e0

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/debunking-the-magical-power-of-the-placebo-effect-for-chronic-pain-yet-again/

Can my brain cure my back pain? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45721670 Not sure what to think of this, is it good it can prove the placebo effect or bad drs will think that a common, debilitating, unexplained often condition involving pain can be helped by tricking the mind?

Placebo effect & “the fade” after stem cell clinic shots "Sometimes when I talk about possible placebo effects with fans of stem cell clinics I feel like placebo becomes akin to a bad word in the discussion. However, any kind of medical procedure can cause placebo effects in people. We’re all...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29768130?dopt=Abstract Full paper here, http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00221309.2018.1459454

Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20993-y

Edit: this article reviews a very interesting survey sent to Zurich GPs. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/whats-worse-doctors-who-believe-homeopathy-or-just-use-it-for-placebo-effect/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-myths-debunked/