And if the truth sounds like a memory then you know it was meant to be
It’s a strange finding nestled inside a weird phenomenon: children are 50 percent more likely than adults to respond favorably to placebos.
So concludes a Public Library of Science Medicine review by French pediatricians of anti-epilepsy drug studies. If replicated in other drugs, researchers may need to adjust their analyses of clinical drug studies involving kids.
What could account for the tendency of kids to feel better after taking a drug designed to do nothing? The reasons, write the researchers, “remain largely unknown and mostly speculative.”
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
everyone knows kids are liars.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Power of faith etc? For grown ups this translates to the power of lying to yourself. But hey. It still works.
In other news, I’m gonna be hitting the refresh button until this week’s dose arrives.
“What could account for the tendency of grown ups to feel better after reading a blog designed to do nothing? The reasons, write the researchers, “remain largely unknown and mostly speculative.”
;)