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What is the placebo effect, and is it "real"?

Patients who receive inert treatments sometimes improve. Is the placebo effect a genuine physiological phenomenon, a statistical artefact, or something else?

MedicineOpen·Asked by Omniscientia Team·18 March 2026
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