Placebo As Good As Asthma Drug, Say Patients
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Who is right when patients say they get the same relief from placebos for their asthma symptoms as their prescription drug, while clinical tests find that only the medication has any significant effect? These surprising findings were reported by Harvard University researchers in the latest issue of NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). Symptoms of wheezing and coughing, according to participating stable asthma patients, improved with placebo inhalers (inhalers with dummy drugs in them) and fake acupuncture, to the same extent as with an albuterol
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