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The Placebo Effect… the A02 point that just keeps getting bigger….

October 17, 2009March 9, 2017Adrian Frost

“Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late 90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, regulators might not approve some of them. Two […]

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