March 24, 2023

IN BRIEF: placebos; teenagers; embryo licence fees

Mumbai
  • A survey of Israeli doctors suggests that they often give inactive “placebo” pills to their patients and then lie by telling them that they are getting a real drug. Some doctors want the practice banned because of the deception and possible harm to the doctor-patient relationship, say the authors of a study in the British Medical Journal.
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