Open-label placebo works as well as double-blind placebo in irritable bowel syndrome
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30 March 2021Open-label placebo works as well as double-blind placebo in irritable bowel syndrome
For decades, the power of the placebo effect was thought to lie in patients’ belief that they were—or at least, could be—receiving a pharmacologically active treatment. A new study by physician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) suggests that patients don’t need to be deceived to receive benefit from treatment with placebo.
