Placebos prove powerful even when people know they're taking one
Aug 2020, phys.org
Did Someone Say Fake Drugs?
A team of researchers from Michigan State University, University of Michigan and Dartmouth College is the first to demonstrate that placebos reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people know they are taking one.
Darwin A. Guevarra et al, Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress, Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17654-y
Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study
Nov 2020, phys.org
21,000 people from the 2012 U.S. National Health Interview Survey:
"Users of multivitamins and nonusers don't differ in any of these clinically measurable health outcomes, but they report at least feeling about 30% better in their overall health," said lead researcher Manish Paranjpe, a student at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Manish D Paranjpe et al. Self-reported health without clinically measurable benefits among adult users of multivitamin and multimineral supplements: a cross-sectional study, BMJ Open (2020). DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039119
Fake pharmaceutical industry thrives in West Africa
BBC News, Jul 2020
China's Luckin Coffee slumps on 'fake' data news
Apr 2020, BBC News
The Nasdaq-listed company said its investigation had found that fabricated sales from the second quarter of last year to the fourth quarter amounted to about 2.2bn yuan ($310m; £250m). That equates to about 40% of its estimated annual sales.
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