Everyone thinks that the placebo effect works only because people think they're taking a real, working drug. But a new study seems to indicate that people who are taking placebos feel better even when they know the pills don't work.

Here's the annual article pointing out that Vitamin C and Echinacea won't prevent or reduce the symptoms of a cold. You'll have to suffer through it, take a day off, blow your nose, and watch daytime TV like everyone else.

Just in case you wondering, a thing called a "fecal transplant" exists, and saves lives. Like most terrible medical phenomena, we can blame poop transplants on Purell moms and the antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" they hath wrought.

German doctors who gave an HIV-positive patient with leukemia a bone marrow transplant from a donor resistant to HIV infection claim that, four years later, the patient is free of both cancer and HIV. That is some strong marrow!

A massive new study appears to show that a daily dosage of common antiretroviral pill called Truvada to HIV-negative patients is 90 percent effective at preventing HIV infection. Terrific news! Too bad no one knows who'll pay for it.

A new study released in the medical journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology has some disturbing figures about people who intentionally swallow foreign objects — pens, batteries, knives, razor blades and such — and the health care costs they incur.

Today on The Doctors, the world was introduced to InstyMeds, a prescription vending machine. A little information, and out come your drugs! Citizens and luddites beware, this machine controls your health and well being. And it will control you, too.

Do you need a cyst removed from your testicles? I'd maybe avoid Dr. Sulieman Al Hourani, who mistakenly cut out a patient's testicle "literally as the nurse turned away." He also once injected himself with leftover painkillers. But nobody's perfect!

The abortion debate has devolved to the zygote version of a LOLCat. A lady got an ultrasound, and her unborn child looked like it was smiling. Thus, "a baby can experience feelings such as happiness" earlier than previously thought.

Baking pot brownies is fun, but have you ever cooked up a batch with your parents? That's a little weird, right? Well, it's quite the opposite for one young man and his father: "We spend our bonding time making brownies."

To remove a tumor "the size of a calzone," doctors split a woman in half and attached her leg to her spine. They're calling it a "pogo stick" surgery, the first of its kind. The patient is in good spirits.

Good news: "Shoppers experience the same rush of endorphins when they stumble across a hot sale promotion as they do when they are sexually aroused." So if you shopped during Fashion's Night Out, you have been to an orgy.

Only those with the steeliest of stomachs should proceed. What you are about to see is video of a living 2-cm worm crawling beneath the surface of a lady's twitching eyeball, then getting extracted. It was there for six years.

The American teen tradition of chugging Robitussin and trippin' could soon become a lot harder if the man gets his way. The Food and Drug Administration is trying to crack down on the over-the-counter sale of medicine containing dextromethorphan. Lame.

Warning: this video may make you cry. Here's Selinah, a woman afflicted with AIDS. She agreed to be filmed once a day for 90 days. But as heavy as the subject is, we get a happy ending here. Watch inside.

How would you like to find out that your doctor's undergrad days were spent majoring not in chemistry or biology, but in reading lesbian poetry and smoking reefer? Yes, it is time to overreact.

It is safe to reawaken the guy from Vanilla Sky: The Spanish recipient of the world's first full face transplant unveiled himself—and his all-new skin, muscles, nose and lips—for TV cameras today in Barcelona. He looks pretty good!

Click to viewHouston's Sheyla Hershey broke the world record with her size 38KKK breasts. The Brazillian "model" has had 30 breast augmentations, and the most recent one might be the one that kills her or causes her to lose her prized possessions.

Though a Spanish doctor claimed back in April that he performed the world's first full facial transplant, a French doctor is now claiming the title, because his job involved lips and a full lachrymal system. Ruh roh, face war!!

Kid checkups! Organic fatties! Lazy docs! Sports carbs! Drunk teens! Rat Lungs! It's your predominantly factual Health Watch, where we watch your health—with the interest of a teenage girl amongst nerds!