Definition of «placebo treatment»

"Placebo treatment" refers to a pretend or fake treatment given to a person, which has no active ingredients or actual medical effect. It is often used in medical studies to compare the effect of a new treatment to the effects of taking nothing at all (placebo group), helping researchers determine if the new treatment is effective or not.

Sentences with «placebo treatment»

If so, such people would not only benefit from all kinds of placebo treatment, they also could be excluded from clinical drug trials. (discovermagazine.com)
What doctors need, she says, is a list of indicators of diseases for which placebo treatments might be suited. (discovermagazine.com)
Furthermore, the effects of active vs. placebo treatment on insulin sensitivity was compared. (chiro.org)
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