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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.
June 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With that in mind, five years ago I began working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Penn State to explore what a yoga program might do for kids. We began working with the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in Baltimore, Md., a small nonp ...
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.
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.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article looked at whether the use of biologically-based therapies, body-based therapies, or other alternative therapies were associated with a variety of quality-of-life outcomes among respondents age 55 and older.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents qualitative findings from the first study of how physicians respond when patients raise the issue of prayer. The study recruited pediatric physicians from thirteen hospitals on U.S. News and World Report?s ?honor roll.?
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.
July 23, 2009 | Story
Marlatt and colleagues conducted a study in a prison in Seattle in which inmates were given the opportunity to participate in a 10-day Vipassana meditation course.
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.