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December 21, 2010 | Journal Article
Echinacea is widely used to treat the common cold. The objective of this randomized, controlled study was to assess the potential benefits of echinacea as a treatment of common cold.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In this article, the authors examine the association between spirituality healing of Latinos and their attitudes of self-reported perceptions about the medical encounter.
January 1, 2001 | Program Results Report
The Grace Counseling Center in Madison, N.J., Drew University, Madison, N.J., and Morristown Memorial Hospital of Morristown, N.J. jointly sponsored a conference in 1998 on the integration of spirituality and medicine, which many health professionals now believe can significantly enhance healing.
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has greatly increased during the past decade. Using survey data from the 2002 National Health interview Survey (NHIS), we show that adults who did not get, or delayed, need ...
July 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to describe the religious characteristics of physicians in comparison to the broader United States population. A national probability sample of 2,000 physicians was surveyed using measures of religion and spirituality. ...
September 16, 2008 | Journal Article
This study compares the use of massage therapy to relieve pain and other symptoms to simple touch therapy for terminally ill individuals.
July 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Religious practices and medicine as a calling.
January 1, 1998 | Program Results Report
From 1995 to 1997, project staff at the Wellspring Foundation of Bethlehem, Conn., continued its residential retreat program for cancer patients.
April 9, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
A recent report that "most family doctors" in the UK have given a patient a placebo underscores the importance of Ted Kaptchuk's innovative, multidisciplinary research into the placebo effect.
August 30, 2012 | Story
A 1999 RWJF grant to launch a palliative care program blossoms into a highly successful multi-year initiative, as Debby Brauch, of SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, relates.