medicine

Mindfulness meditation improves chronic low back pain

Thomas G. Ciccone, Practical Pain Management: Mindfulness meditation may offer the drug-free key to pain-free living for patients aged 65…

March 31, 2016

Medical matters: should doctors prescribe a course in mindfulness?

Muiris Houston, The Irish Times: Mindfulness has become quite a buzzword of late. An ancient Buddhist practice, it is seen…

November 3, 2015

Dalai Lama’s American doctor wants more compassion in medicine

PBS Newshour: Before he was a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin never imagined that a professional…

October 29, 2015

Mind Over Matter

Maggie Flynn. Philly.com: Stressed out? Think it out. Mind over matter is a difficult state to achieve, but according to…

February 5, 2014

We need to take meditation more seriously as medicine

Jacoba Urist, Time: To be fair, I’m not sure how I would have responded had my surgeon suggested I meditate…

January 20, 2014

Could an awareness of the heartbeat be a vital component of empathy?

An awareness of the heart (the physical organ, not the metaphorical seat of emotion) and its role in empathy. Noticing…

August 16, 2013

Meditation reduces PTSD symptoms in nurses

Practicing a form of meditation and stretching can help relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and normalize stress hormone levels,…

May 30, 2013

Meditation gets thumbs-up for pain, more muted support for stress

Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times: Meditation this week won the scientific stamp of approval from a federal panel as a…

December 10, 2012

Meditation helps doctors deal with the emotional flood

The woman was terminally ill with advanced cancer, and the oncologist who had been treating her for three years thought…

November 30, 2012

Meditation, memory loss, Alzheimer’s and aging

Gordon Richman, WASHINGTON, November 12, 2012 - Alzheimer’s is devastating and terrifying. Our grandparents are fighting it now, our parents…

November 14, 2012