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  1. TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls
  2. Negative words can harm patients, and this needs to influence the ethics of informed consent
  3. Why include humanities in medical studies: comment
  4. Inadequate description of placebo and sham controls in a systematic review of recent trials
  5. Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapy: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  6. Rapid overview of systematic reviews of nocebo effects reported by patients taking placebos in clinical trials
  7. Technology: a help or hindrance to empathic healthcare?
  8. Philosophy of too much medicine conference report
  9. Therapeutic empathy: what it is and what it isn't
  10. How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys
  11. Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis: Table 1
  12. In search of justification for the unpredictability paradox
  13. Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza complications
  14. Current and future use of point-of-care tests in primary care: an international survey in Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA
  15. Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?
  16. Homeopathy for allergic rhinitis: protocol for a systematic review
  17. The Need for Randomization in Animal Trials: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
  18. Response to ’Position statement on ethics, equipoise and research on charged particle therapy‘
  19. Placebo use in the UK: a qualitative study exploring GPs’ views on placebo effects in clinical practice
  20. Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in adults and children
  21. Primary care clinicians’ attitudes towards point-of-care blood testing: a systematic review of qualitative studies
  22. Problems with using mechanisms to solve the problem of extrapolation
  23. Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  24. Placebo Use in the United Kingdom: Results from a National Survey of Primary Care Practitioners
  25. Can understanding mechanisms solve the problem of extrapolating from study to target populations (the problem of ‘external validity’)?
  26. Understanding GRADE: an introduction
  27. Saying Things the “Right” Way: Avoiding “Nocebo” Effects and Providing Full Informed Consent
  28. The evidence underpinning sports performance products: a systematic assessment
  29. Stats.con
  30. The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine
  31. Evidence-based mechanistic reasoning
  32. What's in Placebos: Who Knows? Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials
  33. Questioning the Methodologic Superiority of ‘Placebo’ Over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials
  34. Reviewing the Unsubstantiated Claims for the Methodological Superiority of ‘Placebo’ over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials: Reply to Open Peer Commentaries
  35. Escaping from placebo prison
  36. The evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill's ‘guidelines for causation’ contribute?
  37. If Children Understand Drawing Straws and Flipping Coins, Research Participants Can Understand Randomization