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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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 2006 | Journal Article
The recruitment and retention of well-trained, motivated health care providers in underserved communities is a longstanding problem that has led researchers and policy-makers to study providers' motivations for work among the underserved. This study ...