A new opinion article in Biology Letters – "Studying placebo effects in model organisms will help us understand them in humans" – dives into the possibility of studying the placebo effect in animals ...

Stanford University researchers found that depressed people given ketamine before undergoing anesthesia improved just as much as those given saline. reading time 3 minutes New research might ...

The placebo effect, in which people experience health benefits from inactive medications, thrives on great expectations. According to a new study of placebo-induced reduction of anxiety, such ...

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center along Harry Hines Blvd. in Dallas is participating in a national non-consent medical study involving cardiac-arrest patients. But not all the patients ...

Remember that epic moment from Space Jam (the first one, of course, with Michael Jordan) where Bugs Bunny gives his teammates that very Michael's 'Secret Stuff,' which makes them incredibly strong and ...