Tag: Ted Kaptchuk

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    Doctors can feel their patients’ pain

    A novel experiment illuminates the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, providing the first data into the underlying neurobiology of the caregiver.

    6 minutes
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    Placebos work — even without deception

    Patients who were knowingly given placebos for irritable bowel syndrome experienced significant symptom relief when compared with controls.

    3 minutes
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    All placebos not created equal

    While researchers usually use placebos in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of a new treatment, a trial reported in the Feb. 1, 2006 British Medical Journal pitted one placebo against another.

    2 minutes