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Example sentences for: placebos

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The cover story marvels at the placebo effect and wonders whether we should allow doctors to prescribe placebos.
And some subjects receive placebos because, unlike penicillin for Alabama, the full AZT regimen is out of reach for poor countries.
(Ultimately, the Senate Labor Committee approved Satcher 12 to 5.) Johns Hopkins researchers suspended an Ethiopian study with placebos.
Researchers giving placebos, they said, were knowingly killing children.
Ineffective: chiropractic spinal manipulations did not seem to help with tension headaches; and acupuncture didn't do any better than placebos in the treatment of AIDS-related nerve damage.