Psychology & Psychiatry

A new look at the placebo effect

A new conceptualization of the placebo effects is presented in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Oncology & Cancer

Chemotherapy drug maintains quality of life despite side effects

Patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) reported similar health-related quality of life (HRQOL) during treatment with a recently approved chemotherapy drug as compared to patients receiving a placebo treatment, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Clinical trial tests spinal manipulation therapy for migraines

Manual-therapy randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are difficult to perform because it's challenging to conceal a placebo when patients are able to physically feel a treatment that's being delivered. Now, though, researchers ...

Ophthalmology

Network meta-analysis recommends prostaglandins for glaucoma

(HealthDay)—Network meta-analysis, which compares multiple treatment options, suggests that prostaglandins are best for decreasing intraocular pressure at three months in primary open angle-glaucoma (POAG), according to ...

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