A medicine shall be handled as fake medicine in any of the following cases.

有下列情形之一的药品，按假药论处。

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They are designed to be non-functional fake medicine, given to the control group in a blind trial.

在他们看来，安慰剂只是一些在实验对象不知情的情况下给对照组使用的毫无药效的假药片儿。

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If the customers eat the fake medicine, then their bodies will not be healthy, even kill their lives.

如果顾客吃到假药，他们的身体就会不健康，甚至丢掉性命。

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As Peter Lipson explained recently in his Forbes column, naturopaths are little more than fake doctors, whose practices are a modern-day version of folk medicine.

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Two landmark studies last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a similar spine procedure (vertebroplasty) was no better than a fake operation--raising serious questions over whether the pain relief patients report from kyphoplasty is nothing more than an expensive placebo effect.

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