2012
- 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.
2011
- 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.





