The placebo effect: Plugging the nostrils of unmet needs

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-152

  Baraniuk, James N ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; GLUCOCORTICOID; PATULIN; PLACEBO;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EOSINOPHILIA; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CONGESTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RHINORRHEA; RHINOSINUSITIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; RHINITIS;

EID: 60349084050     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-009-0022-5     Document Type: Review

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