Life Sciences

Reports outline life sciences research from M.O van Deventer and colleagues

Published in Physician Business Week, September 23rd, 2008

Scientists discuss in 'Meta-placebo: do doctors have to lie about giving a fake treatment' new findings in life sciences. According to recent research from Netherlands, "Fake treatments work. That is a well established medical fact."

"This is why the golden standard of evidence-based medicine requires double-blind testing. Both real and fake (also known as placebo) treatments are administered in order to be able to distinguish the effects of the treatment-under-test from the placebo effect. Given the medically proven fact that fake treatments work, doctors could include fake treatments in their medical repertoire. However, this poses an ethical dilemma. On the one hand...

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Source: Physician Business Week (2008-09-23)

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