Month: March 2020

Scientists often use placebo-controlled trials to evaluate medical interventions, so understanding how and why these effects arise is important. After all, if people experience relief from their symptoms or develop side effects when they have only taken a sugar pill, this makes interpreting the results of studies more difficult. For…

When most people hear the phrase “Informed Consent,” they think of the legal document that explains the study and contains the required dated signatures. However, informed consent is first and foremost a continuing process. This includes a person voluntarily agreeing to participate in a research study after being fully informed…