The report says placebos, from vitamin pills to homeopathic remedies or even sham surgery, can prove highly effective in various treatments.

这份调查说，安慰剂、维生素药片，顺势疗法甚至假手术在各种各样的治疗中发挥了很好的效果。

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In the trial, 22 patients had the virus injected into their brains while 23 patients had "sham surgery", to make them think they had the virus injected.

在这项试验中，22名患者的脑部被注入该病毒，而另外23名患者进行的是“假手术”，仅使他们误以为被注射了病毒。

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For sham operation group, expose heart by surgery and find left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, and then braid to make a ringer but remain the silk untensioned;

开胸暴露心脏后找到左冠前降支（LAD）穿线做套环，但不收紧结扎线；

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Placebo injections are more effective than placebo pills, and neither is as potent as sham surgery.

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In the year after the procedure, 57 percent of those who had the actual surgery reported the complete elimination of migraine headaches, compared with just 4 percent in the sham surgery group.

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Medtronic argues that a sham surgery trial for kyphoplasty is not needed because the Lancet trials followed patients for a full year, and that a placebo effect would be unlikely to persist for this long.

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