Tag: placebos.
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Doctors often prescribe placebos. But how well do they work?
[ad_1] Having worked for decades as a physical therapist and a clinical researcher, Dr. Chris Maher knows firsthand how difficult it can be to treat back pain. The condition’s causes are often complex or uncertain, and treatments can be ineffective, even harmful. So when he learned that a group of researchers, including scientists at Harvard,…