A placebo (/pləˈsiːboʊ/ plə-SEE-boh) can be roughly defined as a sham medical treatment. Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert...

Placebo is a British alternative rock band, formed in London in 1994 by vocalist–guitarist Brian Molko and bassist–guitarist Stefan Olsdal, and in late...

Placebo is the debut studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo. It was released on 17 June 1996 by record label Virgin. It is the only album...

Placebo may also refer to: Placebo (band), an English alternative rock band Placebo (Placebo album), the band's 1996 self-titled debut album Placebo,...

An active placebo is a placebo that produces noticeable side effects that may convince the person being treated that they are receiving a legitimate treatment...

Placebo-controlled studies are a way of testing a medical therapy in which, in addition to a group of subjects that receives the treatment to be evaluated...

Look up placebo effect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A placebo effect is the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective...

Placebo analgesia occurs when the administration of placebos leads to pain relief. Because placebos by definition lack active ingredients, the effect...

Walter Kennedy in 1961 to denote the counterpart to the use of placebo (Latin placēbō, 'I shall please', from placeō, 'I please'), a substance that may...

The word placebo was used in a medicinal context in the late 18th century to describe a "commonplace method or medicine" and in 1811 it was defined as...