2022

• Read: “Why a placebo can work – even when you know it’s fake”  National Geographic | Science
• Read: ‘The Placebo Response – A Powerful Phenomenon” Technology Networks
• Read:  Media coverage of JAMA Network Open article: Frequency of adverse events in the placebo arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials – A systematic review and meta-analysis

2021

• “Read: “Doctors often prescribe placebos. But how well do they work?”  New York Times
• Read: “A surprising discovery: How placebos can help relieve pain”:  Psychology Today

2020

• Read: “A placebo for pain relief – even when you know it’s not real”  Wall Street Journal
• Listen: “How the placebo effect works” SYSK

2019

• Read:  “Le placebo, quèsaco?”  LeMonde
• Listen: “Placebo: can the mind cure you?”  Gimlet
• Listen:  “All the world’s a stage – including the doctor’s office”   Hidden Brain / NPR
• Listen”  “”Placebos may be a powerful tool that medicine has overlooked”  NPR 
• Read: “How I learned to stop worrying and love the placebo effect”  Pharmafocus
• Listen:  “The placebo paradox”  BBC Radio

2018

• Read:  “Patient care and enzyme release appear crucial to placebo effect”  Irish Times
• Read:  “What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?”  The New York Times
• Listen: “The counter-intuitive effect of open-label placebo”  BMJ podcast
• Listen: “Placebo on Prescription”  BBC Radio
• Read: “Placebo’s new power”  Time Magazine
• Read: “Will future GPs prescribe placebo pills?”  Pharmacy News
• Read:  “The ‘honest’ placebo: when drugs still work even though patients know they’re fake”   New Atlas
• Read: “How do placebos work?”  Mental Floss
• Read: “Getting benefits from placebos” The Saturday Paper

2017

• Read:  “Mind over matter: How placebos can enhance health”  U.S. News & World Rpt.
• Read:  “Aus Getrickst”  Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
• Read: “The weird power of the placebo effect, explained”  Vox
• Read:  “A radical new hypothesis in medicine: give patients drugs they know don’t work”  Vox
• Read:  “I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic”  The Guardian
• Read:  “Why I take fake pills”  Smithsonian
• Listen: “Can placebos work if you know they are placebos?”  NPR 
• Read: “The power of the placebo effect” Harvard Men’s Health Watch
• Read:  “How the placebo effect may help you” Harvard Women’s Health Watch
• Read: “How telling people about the side effects of a drug can make them sick” Business Insider

2016

• Read:  “Honest placebos: medicine can work without any actual medicine” LA Times
• Watch:  “Why do placebos work?”   CBS Sunday Morning (national news magazine)
• Listen: “Is it still a placebo when it works and you know it’s a placebo?”  NPR
• Read: “Placebos ease back pain, even if you know it’s a sugar pill”  New York Times
• Read:  “Placebos ease pain even when patients know they are fake”  London Times
• Read: “Why placebos really work: The latest science”  Wall Street Journal
• Read: “Placebos: Honest Fakery”  Nature
• Watch: “Placebos helping IBS, migraine sufferers find relief”  CBS (Boston)
• Watch: “New research shows prescription placebo can improve several common medical conditions”  CBS
• Read: “Tap the placebo effect to unlock your body’s healing powers”  New Scientist

2015

• Read:  “Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015”  NewYorker
• Watch:  “Placebo effects make good medicine better”  TEDMED
• Listen:  “Prescribing Placebos”  Groks Science Radio Show and Podcast
• Listen:  “The Placebo Effect”  WNPR
• Read:  “Why are placebos getting more effective?”  BBC News
• Read: “The placebo effect grows (but only in the US)”  The Boston Globe
• Listen:  “Placebo effect: it might not be in your head after all”  WBUR (NPR) 
• Read: “Is the placebo effect in your DNA?”  The Atlantic
• Read: “Genes and the placebo effect”  The Economist
• Read: “Your own personal placebo: genes reveal response to sugar pill”  NewScientist
• Read: “Genes may influence placebo effect”  ScienceNews
• Read: “The placebome: where genetics and the placebo effect meet” eScienceNews
• Read: “Are some people wired to fall for placebos?”  PBS NewsHour
• Read: “Pas tous égaux devant l’effet placebo”  LeTemps
• Read: “Sentir alivio sin medicina es también cuestión de genes” La Nacion vivir

2014

• Read: “Outsmarting the placebo effect”  Science Magazine
• Listen:  “Migraine study reveals the power of placebo”   NPR’s Science Friday
• Listen:  “Harnessing the placebo effect”  BBC World Service (1st  segment)
• Read:  “Migraines- tablets found to perform better when a patient is told they are effective”  DailyMail
• Read:  “Power of suggestion revealed in study of migraine drug” US News and World Report
• Read:  “Half of a drug’s power comes from thinking it will work”  Shots (NPR Health Blog)
• Read:  “Take two sugar pills and call me in the morning”  Nautilus
• Read:  “The placebo effect – a new study underscores its remarkable power”  Toronto Globe and Mail
• Read: “Expectations influence effects of medications and placebo”  Harvard Medical News

2013

• Watch:  “Are Placebo Effects Worth Anything?”   Harvard MED-Ed Talk  
• Watch:  The Science of Placebo Forum – brief highlights  
• Read:  “A Powerful Tool in the Doctor’s Toolkit”   New York Times – Health/Science
• Read:  “The Placebo Effect is Real.  Now Doctors Just Have to Work Out How to Use it”   Fast Company
• Watch: “Ted Kaptchuk – On the Power of Placebos”  Cambridge Nights
• Watch:  “Ted Kaptchuk  – On the Placebo Effect”   Cambridge Nights 
• Read:  “When Pretending is the Remedy”  Scientific American Mind
• Read:  “Worried Sick: Expectations can make you ill”   The Scientist Magazine
• Read:  “The Placebo Phenomenon“.  Harvard Magazine
• Read: “Beyond Belief”   Harvard Medicine
• Listen:  “Research show placebos may have place in everyday treatments”  All Things Considered;  NPR
• Read:  “Can doctors can feel their patients’ pain?“.   Time
• Read:  “Doctors can feel their patients’ pain“.   Harvard Gazette
• Read:  “Brain scan study suggests Docs ‘feel’ your pain.”   US News
• Read:  “Doctors’ brains feel their patients’ pains”.   Boston Globe
• Read:  “Doctors Really Do Feel Your Pain”.    LiveScience
• Read: “Doctor-Patient Relationship: Physicians’ Brain Scans Indicate Doctors Can Feel Their Patients’ Pain — And Their Relief“.    ScienceDaily
• Read:  “Forget the Placebo Effect: It’s the ‘Care Effect’ that Matters”.  WIRED Magazine

2012

• Watch:  “Mind over Medicine”.  60 Minutes Australia 
• Read:  “Patients’ DNA may explain how placebo effect occurs, study finds”.  Washington Post
• Read: “Placebo effect may depend on your genes”.  Fox News.com 
• Read:  “Placebo’s effect may depend on your genes”.  Live Science
• Read:  “Placebo effect may be ‘down to genes'”.  BBC News Health
• Listen:  Radio Boston interview with Ted Kaptchuk and Arthur Barsky on the nocebo effect – WBUR
• Read: “Warning patients of drug side effects may trigger symptoms”  The Boston Globe
• Read:  “A subconscious placebo effect?”  – L.A. Times
• Read: “When a placebo might be the right ‘drug'” Consumer Reports
• Watch: “Patients get positive results from honest placebos” WCVB-TV Channel 5 
• Read: “Putting the placebo effect to work” Harvard Health Letter
• Read: “The placebo effect and depression” The Boston Globe
• Watch: “Treating Depression: Is there a placebo effect?” 60 Minutes
• Watch: “How the powerful placebo effect works.” 60 Minutes Overtime
• Read: “Your Own Medicine.” Danish Daily Information. (Danish) / Translation
• Watch: “Can A Sugar Pill Help You Feel Better? Surprising New Research on Placebos” An Interview with Heather Kahn
• Read: “New Research on the Anti-Depressant vs Research Debate” TIME
• Listen: “One Scholar’s Take On the Power of The Placebo” Science Friday (NPR).
• Listen: “The Future of Placebos in Medical Care” The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU Radio).
• Read: “Why Placebos Work Wonders” The Wall Street Journal.

• Listen: “Understanding the Placebo Effect” Minnesota Public Radio.
• Read: “The Placebo Debate: Is it unethical to prescribe them to patients?” The Atlantic.
• Listen: “Demystifiying the Power of ‘The Placebo Effect.'” WBUR (Boston’s NPR station)
• Read: “Ted Kaptchuk’s Quest to Understand the Placebo Effect.” The New Yorker.
• Listen: “Placebos and Medical ‘Meaning’.” New England Journal of Medicine’s JournalWatch Podcast.
• Listen: “The Power of the Placebo.” WHYY (Philadelphia Public Radio)
• Read: “What if the drugs don’t work?” The Independent.
• Read: “Asthma study shows placebo can help symptoms.” WebMD.
• Read: “The placebo effect, this time in asthma.” Wall Street Journal.
• Read: “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” New York Review of Books.
• Read: “When first we practice to deceive.” Harvard Medicine.

2010

• Watch: “Placebos work, even without deception.” NBC Nightly News.
• Watch: “Understanding the Placebo Effect.” Philoctetes Center Roundtable Discussion.
• Listen: “Fake pills can work, even if patients know it.” NPR.
• Listen: “Placebo.” BBC World Today.
• Listen: “All in the mind.” BBC Radio 4.
• Read: “Patients in study who knew they were taking placebo still felt better.” Boston Globe.
• Read: “Perceptions: Positive spin adds to a placebo’s impact.” New York Times.
• Read: “Sugar pills help, even when patients are aware of them.” ABC News.
• Read: “The nothing cure.” Forbes.

2008

• Listen: “Placebo.” BBC Radio 4.

2006

• Watch: “The power of placebo.” Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
• Read: “Alternative placebos.” Harvard Magazine.
• Read: “On pills and needles.” Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin.
  

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