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How the Placebo Effect “Tricks” the Brain

You have probably heard of the placebo effect, but what is it and how does it work? Can something that’s in our heads actually provide relief?

NIH program promises to revolutionize medicine and cure some of the nation’s deadliest diseases. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are needed.

Researchers are finding extensive tissue damage from COVID-19, a systemic illness that damages cells and organs throughout the body.

As the world enters Pandemic Year Two, data is showing that the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection are becoming a long-term problem.

Medications are still being formulated with a strong male bias. Including women in clinical trials could lead to safer dosages for women.

Untreatable no longer! Scientists at the Wistar Institute have discovered a way to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Biomarkers allow doctors to detect kidney malfunction earlier, and have the potential to change how we test and treat diseases in the future.

Scientists have found a new way to defeat cancer by killing cancer cells without harming the patient.

Medications are still formulated with a male bias, but new awareness of how different bodies process drugs could lead to safer dosages for women.

Models suggest HPV tricks the immune system by producing a decoy viral protein to distract from its infectious viral proteins.