The salts are said to help with sore muscles and magnesium deficiency — -- When it comes to health trends, it is hard to keep up. Everything from the Paleo diet to oil-pulling to drinking aloe ...

When you were a child and fell playing outside, a single bandage — a placebo of sorts — could take away the pain. The placebo effect has long been somewhat of a medical mystery. While researchers ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since ...

Harnessing the placebo effect for pain relief could help to reduce dosages of painkillers, lowering the risk of both side effects and becoming dependent on medication. Because it's a psychological ...

Researchers have discovered a novel pain control pathway that links the cingulate cortex in the front of the brain, through the pons region of the brainstem, to cerebellum in the back of the brain.

Over the last several years, evidence has been accumulating that placebo effects are becoming more powerful. Clinical trials on a range of medications used for treating both psychological and medical ...

The hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine is generally believed to be a driving force behind experiencing pain relief with the placebo effect, but it may actually play little or no part in the ...