Thinking yourself sick - The Times 25th August 2007

Why do some patients not respond to treatment? Is it because of the nocebo effect? Roger Dobson reports Every day, many of us take clinically proven drugs that fail to work as plannedor that trigger unexplained side-effects. The reasons for this can be chemically complex, but new research suggests that there may also be a far simpler explanation: we think that they are having a bad effect.

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