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

The trial shows that, over an 18-month period, patients receiving the drug declined at a slower rate than those receiving a placebo, which, in this case, was a dummy infusion rather than a sugar pill.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023

Often, a placebo is a sugar pill that is matched in size and color to the experimental medication but does not deliver any biologically active agents.

From Slate • May 10, 2018

Let's set Group 1 as those who received the actual new medicine being tested and therefore Group 2 is those who received the sugar pill.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

And in the next story you shall hear how the doctor cured the donkey with a little sugar pill.

From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by Cory, David