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Negative Expectations May Have Stronger, Longer-Lasting Impact on Pain Than Positive Ones
Negative expectations may have a longer impact on pain perception than positive expectations or placebo effects, ...
MAY 23, 2025
Can Placebo Aid in the Treatment of Addiction?
Patients suffering from opioid use disorder who are treated with methadone in conjunction with C-OLP have better ...
MAY 15, 2023
Open-Label Placebo Shows Significant Benefit for Pediatric Abdominal Pain
A crossover trial has found that open-label placebo (OLP) significantly reduced pain and the use of rescue ...
APRIL 15, 2022
Long-Term Outcomes Found Good in Youth Migraine Prevention Medication Trial
Children and adolescents with longer than a five-year history of migraine had sustained positive clinical outcomes ...
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Conditioned Open-Label Placebo Sparing Cuts Opioid Use, Maintains Pain Control After Spine Surgery in Some Patients
Conditioning with an open-label placebo in the immediate postoperative period after spinal surgery significantly ...
MAY 20, 2021
Opioids Show Slight Benefit Over Placebo for Chronic Noncancer Pain
A comprehensive systematic review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that opioids ...
APRIL 17, 2019
Marketing Practices Linked to Increases in Opioid Overdose Mortality, Researchers Say
Although pharmaceutical marketing has long played an important role in the dissemination of information to ...
APRIL 15, 2019
Diazepam Offers No Benefit Over Placebo for Acute Low Back Pain
Adding diazepam to naproxen to treat acute low back pain (LBP) provides no advantage compared with placebo, ...
JULY 21, 2017
Effective Drugs for Treating Diabetic Neuropathy
Certain antiepileptic drugs and antidepressants such as duloxetine and venlafaxine are effective for treating ...
MARCH 31, 2017
Placebo Plus Usual Treatment Achieves Clinically Significant Back Pain Relief
A placebo of a pill added to treatment as usual for chronic low back pain resulted in clinically significant ...
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Study: NSAIDs Provide Little Benefit in Treating Back Pain
Patients taking NSAIDs were 2.5 times more likely to have gastrointestinal problems such as stomach ulcers and ...
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Individualized Acupuncture Protocols for Fibromyalgia Reduce Pain Up to a Year
Individualized acupuncture treatment of fibromyalgia in primary care relieved patients’ pain and enhanced ...
APRIL 20, 2016
