placebo
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Participants who took metformin needed about 12% less insulin than those in the placebo group to maintain stable blood sugar.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
A drug also needs to be proven to work better than a placebo.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
Participants were assigned to receive either evolocumab injections every two weeks or a placebo.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The company said patients who were on the highest dose lost 15.3% of their weight while those in the placebo group lost 2.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that’s what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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