A Swiss trial found they were more effective than standard treatments for premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric ...

Women with premenstrual syndrome reported big improvements in their symptoms after taking placebo pills, despite knowing they ...

New research found that taking a placebo pill, knowing that it contains no active ingredients, reduced the intensity of ...

Women affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS) appear to experience less intense and debilitating symptoms after taking ...

That’s the potential promise of a new study on a drug made by Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. At a scientific ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since ...

The "placebo effect" is a phenomenon that occurs when a person’s physical or mental health improves after taking what is essentially a sham treatment with no clear therapeutic benefits.

While, on average, it takes eight years to be diagnosed with endometriosis, there are, thankfully, new breakthroughs in ...

The act of taking a pill placebo may enhance the placebo effect already contained in the effective psychotherapeutic intervention during the acute phase treatment. There may be some further room ...