sugar pill
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The placebo may be an injectable saline solution, or water, or a sugar pill.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
He published those results in 2017, noting that rigorous studies were needed, in which some patients would be randomly assigned to take minoxidil and others a sugar pill.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
For example, in medication trials, it is well established that the color of a sugar pill makes a difference.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
Test at 5% to see if the population mean for the real drug had a significantly greater impact on the endorphins than the population mean with the sugar pill.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
HAHNEMANN, Doctor, of Leipsig, discovered the sugar pill and called it homeopathy.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon
