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Placebos

Known as: sham therapy, Placebos (Medicine), placebo therapy 
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a… 
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2015
2015
The Interaction of Drugs with Placebos in the Control of Pain and Anxiety
Placebos are pharmacologically inert materials which are administered to patients, or experimental subjects, along with expressed… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Superiority of combined diltiazem and propranolol therapy for angina pectoris.
Twenty-four patients with stable angina were evaluated in a 14 week crossover trial. A single-blind placebo period (baseline 1… 
1983
1983
Response to placebo treatment in hypertension.
In essential hypertension, the blood pressure is variable, with large changes occurring in response to variations in physical and… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Placebos and general practice: attitudes to, and the use of, the placebo effect.
The present study surveyed Dunedin general practitioners to determine whether they would deliberately use placebo treatments… 
1977
1977
A study of the variations in the response regarding duodenal ulcer when treated with placebo by different investigators.
Four series of duodenal ulcer patients presenting with pain have been treated with two types of placebos (intramuscular… 
1977
1977
Placebos in dentistry: their profound potential effects.
The placebo effect may influence the treatment of patients with postextraction pain, localized osteitis, and myofascial pain… 
1974
1974
The validity of "identical matching placebos".
This study was a laboratory simulation of the double-blind clinical study in which inactive control drugs are described as… 
1970
1970
Live and inactivated adenovirus vaccines. Clinical evaluation of efficacy in prevention of acute respiratory disease.
1969
1969
Propranolol combined with isosorbide dinitrate versus placebo in angina pectoris.
Abstract Sublingual isosorbide dinitrate, 5 mg, combined with oral propranolol, 40 mg, was given four times daily for six weeks… 
1961
1961
The placebo effect in psychiatric drug research.
A drug investigation involving 120 hospitalized psychiatric patients was simulated. It appeared to participating patients…