A little better than placebo is still better than nothing

A little better than placebo is still better than nothing. Adrian S Dobs. Nature Medicine 19, 962 (2013), doi:10.1038/nm0813-962
Published online 06 August 2013

While we wait for a cure, often we are faced with this situation, and we have great difficulty accessing these "light" drugs, but should exist more "specialists" with these ethical principles.

Doctors often dismiss drugs as ineffective if they fail to outperform dummy pills in randomized trials. That's a mistake. When active medicines have few side effects and produce a strong placebo effect, such drugs, even if they prove just slightly better than placebo, should be embraced for the relief they can bring to patients who have few safe alternatives.