Medications
How can you define a 'drug'? Nobody really knows, argues researcher
What's a medical drug? Ask someone on the street and they're likely to tell you it's the kind of thing you take when you're unwell.
Nov 20, 2023
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News tagged with placebo effect
Medications
Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope
In study after study, the psychoactive drug ketamine has given profound and fast relief to many people suffering from severe depression. But these studies have a critical shortcoming: Participants usually can tell whether ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
No benefit in common shoulder treatment over placebo, finds study
A saline injection treatment widely used for calcific tendinopathy—a common, painful condition caused by a build-up of calcium in the rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder—provides no meaningful benefit over placebo, concludes ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Placebo effect found to be growing stronger for transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy used for depression
A team of medical researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Central South University and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, all in China, has found evidence suggesting that ...
Medications
Opinion: New Alzheimer's drugs don't deserve the hype—here's why
A prominent childhood memory is of my grandparents living with and then dying from dementia. As is universal with dementia, there was a double blow: watching my grandparents lose their identity and seeing the suffering of ...
Sep 1, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Can we assess our own immune system?
How well can we assess the strength of our own immune system? The answer is that we are surprisingly good at this. A study by Konstanz psychologist Stephanie Dimitroff examined how freshly vaccinated people assess the strength ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
I think my child has anxiety. What are the treatment options?
Anxiety disorders are common among Australian children, affecting nearly 7% of those aged 4–11 years.
Jul 24, 2023
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Medications
Do psychedelics really work to treat depression and PTSD? Here's what the evidence says
As of July 1, authorized psychiatrists have been allowed to prescribe MDMA (the chemical found in "ecstasy") to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and psilocybin (found in "magic mushrooms") to treat depression ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Neuroscience
Potential treatment for rare autoimmune disorder could be adapted from CAR-T therapy, suggests clinical trial
Evidence from a small-scale clinical trial suggests that a variation of the advanced blood cancer immunotherapy known as CAR-T could be adapted to treat myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder of the nervous system. The ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Medications
Parkinson's disease drug ropinirole safely slows the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, finds clinical trial
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal motor neuron disease that causes people to gradually lose control of their muscles. There is no cure, and current treatments focus on reducing ...
Jun 1, 2023
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