1.   Half the patients were given the drug and the other half were given a sugar pill.

2.   The other half will swallow harmless sugar pills.

3.   Half the patients were given the medication and the other half received a sugar pill.

4.   But last spring, amid the buzz about promising results, Smith learned that she was among the half left holding a sugar pill.

5.   But then I spied the front page of The Washington Post, which reported that sugar pills may work just as well as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft.

6.   Either they are hormone supplements and mega-calcium pills, or they are sugar pills.

7.   Except, like all snake oils and sugar pills, it created only the illusion of healing.

8.   Ironically, it was a bottle of sugar pills that nearly cost him the race.

9.   Researchers are giving either Zyprexa or a sugar pill to children and adults whom they have classified as preschizophrenic.

10.   She would not have qualified if her sugar pill had been tamoxifen, because participants cannot have taken either drug previously.