While I go back and forth, I tend to agree that once you get beyond the short term release of endogenous opioids in response to the expectation of pain relief, a mysterious placebo effect that produces all sorts of miraculous effects is far less proven than people think.
Mr Clinton vetoed this as a paltry amount that would in effect derail international debt relief.
"There is the potential that the majority of surgery we do for symptom relief is only effective because of the placebo effect--with significant potential of harming the patient, " says Dr. Nelda Wray, research chief at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
But the fact that even the participants receiving the sham acupuncture therapy reported some relief of their symptoms suggests that a strong placebo effect may be responsible for at least part of the improvement.
This, in effect, means that some level of debt relief is already underway.
It may have had some effect on the way the authorities handled the relief effort after May's earthquake in Sichuan province.
Thorough hearings into the direct effect and likely repercussions of even the modest relief from statutory constraints provided by the Senate on 23 September are needed.
This new provision takes effect on September 23 and will bring welcome relief to parents of children with medical conditions who often were denied access to health insurance.
Trade policy will have an effect on employment, but not enough to provide relief from unemployment.
Unlike antidepressants, which take days to weeks to turn down brain anxiety centers (and to show clinical effect), Xanax and other benzodiazepines produce immediate relief.
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.
He said the change, in effect, could expand the universe of religious employers that may win relief from the requirement, wrapping everything from soup kitchens to parochial schools into an overly broad category.
After 45 minutes or so, I began to find the cumulative effect of all the magnificence rather overwhelming, so it was a relief finally to be able to stroll through the palace gardens to a magical belvedere that commanded a view of the glinting lights of the city below.
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Employees could, in effect, make pensions contributions when they felt flush and still get tax relief.
However, to my relief, all the advertising and media coverage regarding gold seems to have had little effect on the actual price of gold so I am still very bullish and I see another 40% rise in gold before it stalls out.
Heat advisories are in effect for parts of 17 states, with forecasters saying there is no relief in sight: "Hot and hotter will continue to be the story from the plains to the Atlantic Coast for the next few days, " the National Weather Service said.
Under the Scottish government's small business bonus scheme, which came into effect in April, many small firms pay no rates at all but the transitional relief for larger companies was scrapped.
Although it takes three to four years for the shots to reach their full effect, after which the dose is tapered down and eventually stopped, people often experience relief within a couple of months after beginning allergy shots.
Although the best relief for patent-induced depression is the promise of new products, headaches are an unavoidable side-effect.
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With the game in full effect, Maguire volleyed over for Aberdeen from 20 yards after Steven Whittaker was dispossessed, much to the relief of the Rangers defender.
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