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...England Journal of Medicine, showed that placebos offer no significant advantage over "no treatment" for dozens of conditions ranging from colds and seasickness to hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. (The exception is pain relief, which sugar pills seem to bring to about 15% of patients.) Dr. Asbjorn Hrobjartsson of the University of Copenhagen, who led the study, speculates that much of the improvement attributed to the placebo effect may have been the result of a disease's natural fluctuation or of patients' unconscious desire to please their doctors...
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