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Open-label placebo may reduce fatigue in cancer survivors

Open-Label Placebo May Reduce Fatigue in Cancer Survivors

Reductions seen in fatigue symptom severity and fatigue-related quality of life disruption
Patients who knowingly took a placebo pill while undergoing traditional treatment for lower back pain had less pain and disability than those who received traditional treatment alone

Open-Label Placebo Treatments Can Ease Chronic Low Back Pain

Patients knew they were taking a placebo and still obtained relief, researchers say
A brand-name label made a placebo tablet work as well as an active nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Branded Rx May Up the Power of Placebo

Branding appeared to confer treatment benefit in absence of an active ingredient
Not all placebos are equally effective for knee osteoarthritis and some can trigger clinically relevant responses

Not All Placebos Are Equal in Knee Osteoarthritis

Differential placebo effects can alter estimates of the relative efficacies of active treatments
The strength of the placebo effect may depend on particular DNA

Placebo Response May Depend on Individual DNA

But more questions than answers exist at this point