placebo effect

I discussed the main ingredient in many of these medications, phenylephrine, a medication that has been around for a quarter of a century but whose approval as an effective therapeutic is equally as old and not the current state of the art.

Maybe I got it wrong, and the real point of the article was to “debunk” the value of cannabis in the treatment of pain.

Some context

The study is a meta-analysis of 12 studies of all forms of the COVID vaccines. The studies included an inert placebo and provided data of adverse effects in both the study's treatment and control and placebo arms.

OK, that last line is a bit of clickbait; placebos themselves are not necessarily becoming more effective, but newer active medications may not be much more effective than the older ones, which means we might need to reconsider how we determine ac

Have you noticed that drug commercials always conclude with some ominous warning like, "This drug may cause headache, anxiety, vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and erectile dysfunction"?

Without a doubt, almost all alternative medicine is junk science.

Acetaminophen is recommended as a first-line treatment for acute lower back pain

Yes by Kenneth E. Legins