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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, 2001 | Program Result
From 1997 to 2000, staff at the Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation established a retreat program for breast cancer survivors and conducted a pilot study of the retreat's effectiveness.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Hospitals may be leaving their patients' religious and spiritual needs unfulfilled despite believing they ought to be more involved, evidence suggests that a low percentage of physicians actually have religious or spiritual discussions with patients.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
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.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2000, the Midwest Bioethics Center (now called the Center for Practical Bioethics) developed and led Compassion Sabbath, a multi-faith initiative to help clergy and religious leaders develop tools for addressing the spiritual needs of seriously ill and dying persons in Greater Kansas City.
January 1, 1998 | Program Result
From 1995 to 1997, project staff at the Wellspring Foundation of Bethlehem, Conn., continued its residential retreat program for cancer patients.
April 1, 2003 | Program Result
In 1999, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at George Washington University brought 40 physicians and clergy members together at a conference meant to address areas of common interest concerning the interfaith and interdisciplinary importance of end-of-life care.
December 1, 1998 | Program Result
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
July 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Religious practices and medicine as a calling.
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.