"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." [table-of-contents] stripped Lauren Quinn has had health-related anxiety for most of her life—and the ...

You've heard of the placebo effect: when positive thinking makes you believe your meds are working. Nocebo is the power of negative thinking. Wait, what? "Somebody tells you 'God, you look terrible, ...

The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person's physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit – a sugar pill, or a syringe full ...

A 26-year-old man once took 29 sugar pills that were inert or chemically inactive thinking they were antidepressants. Under normal circumstances, having these pills will produce no effects in the ...

I’ve been hunkered down with family the last weeks, staying up late to watch movies, drink beers and eat leftover cake from Christmas. My WHOOP stats have not been kind in the morning. Today I ...

Ten years ago, researchers stumbled onto a striking finding: Women who believed that they were prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as women with similar risk factors who ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the placebo effect. Patients who believe they have received an effective remedy tend to feel better and show improvement, even when the remedy is a sham treatment or ...

Recent surveys indicate a rise in “news avoidance”. The latest Reuters Institute poll found four in 10 people worldwide said they sometimes or often actively avoided the news – up from 29 per cent in ...

Mr. A was a 26-year-old male who presented to an emergency department stating, “Help me, I took all my pills” and then collapsed. As he fell, he dropped an empty prescription bottle. The hospital ...