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Religion and medicine are beginning to come together again. You and I know the relevancy of God in the healing process, but in our society at large, this is still very controversial. Only about one in twenty physicians nationwide about 5 percent regularly addresses the spiritual issues of patients. ...Read more
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Science and Theology News, April 2004
A hug may not be able to cure cancer, but a new study that looks at the benefits of compassion toward cancer patients is on its way to showing that a little TLC goes a long way.
Responding to cancer patients' romantic partners and those partners' feelings of helplessness, researchers at California ...Read more
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Science and Theology News, August 2001
Cancer patients and their caregivers may draw strength from their faith when faced with the illness that has overwhelmed them physically and emotionally.
Cancer ranks among the most feared of all diseases. It is the product of cumulative lifestyle and environmental factors that place everyone at ri ...Read more
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Ventura County Star, November 8, 2003
On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the
VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up to an oxygen tank, the man, an Orthodox Jew, could barely
breathe, let alone speak. There were no friends or relatives by his bed ...Read more
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Portage County Gazette, August 20, 1999
I received a letter from the American Cancer Society informing me of "good news." The letter said I was cancer free. I wondered how this organization reached that conclusion. I don't recall anyone asking my permission to check my medical records. I'm sure if the ACS had asked, I would have said OK.
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Larry Dossey, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Until relatively recently, prayer was a taboo topic to be avoided by the sophisticated and scholarly. Although survey researchers had long known that nearly nine out of ten Americans claim to pray, there was little curiosity about exactly what it is that prayers did and whether their activities made ...Read more
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Reprinted by permission of Science and Spirit Magazine
Printed in 2003 — I believe our bodies are far more complex and fascinating than we give them credit for. It is true God didn't think of creating our species until last, and we are less complete than other creatures, but we still have our unique qualities. Why I find the physical components an ...Read more
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From adolescent turmoil to the ailments of aging, faith is a constant for physical and mental well-being. Reprinted by permission of Science and Spirit Magazine.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001—Commitment to faith—and how well an individual struggles with faith in difficult times—appears to be connected to psychological and physical well-being throughout a lifetime.
"Energies flow within us and within the universe, and when people feel like God is ...Read more
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Press Release from Jewish Theological Seminary
A national survey of 1,100 physicians, conducted by HCD Research and the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City over the past weekend, found that 74% of doctors believe that ...Read more
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Assessment shows spirituality and healing now mainstreamed into medical education, clinical services and research. Reprinted with permission of the Mind/Body Medical Institute.
Boston, Dec. 16/PRNewswire/ -- Spirituality and healing are rapidly becoming integrated into mainstream American medicine, observed Herbert Benson, M.D., president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His conclusion is based on new figures showing greater exami ...Read more
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Reprinted with permission from CURE: Cancer Updates, Research & Education. CURE provides the latest in cancer information for patients and their caregivers free of charge. To sign up for CURE, go to
No matter the variation in definition or application, research shows more and more cancer patients are looking to "spirituality" as a way of dealing with their diagnosis. And physicians are paying attention.
The National Institutes of Health has held conferences on the relationship between health a ...Read more
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Reprinted by permission of Science and Spirit Magazine
Printed 2002: July 1998-We know his face without knowing him. It is the haggard face of terminal cancer. It belongs to a young man who is introduced to us in Think Big, a book by Afro-American neurologist Ben Carson.
Our collective subconscious quickly gives the young man a name: death. Science ha ...Read more
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Printed 2002: July 1998-Eighty-seven percent of adults believe that God sometimes answers their prayers, according to a recent Newsweek magazine poll. Forty percent of surveyed biologists, physicists and mathematicians believe in a God who answers prayers, adds a Nature study.
Word of spiritual hea ...Read more
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Printed 2002: ROCHESTER, MINN., Dec. 12, 2001–A study that appears in the December issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings outlines the importance of religion and spirituality in medicine with many patients, but notes it is difficult to prove that the result is better health from intercessory prayer& ...Read more
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More than 70 American medical schools now teach new doctors how to respect patients' emotional and spiritual lives. Reprinted by permission of Science and Spirit Magazine.
MARCH/APRIL 2002–It seems like common sense: When a person walks into a doctor's office, she brings much more than a headache or chest pain. Patients carry with them their ideas about alternative therapies, their parents' teachings, and their belief systems.
But for years, many medical educat ...Read more
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from Science and Theology News, June 10, 2005
Does prayer have health benefits?
Bryant Stamford, professor and director of the Health Promotion Center at the University of Louisville, writes in The (Louisville) Courier-Journal to defend the benefits of prayer as part of medical practice. He notes that the critics do have a point:
I was blas ...Read more
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Reprinted by permission of the author and Physician Magazine (May/June 2003)
Healing has been a lifelong quest for me. Born with heart deformities, I’ve been surrounded by physicians, nurses, technicians, clinics, hospitals, procedures and tests – all the trappings of modern medicine. ...Read more
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Reprinted by permission of Bernadette C. Randle (c) 1995 from Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Aubery, Nancy Autio-Mitchell and Beverly Katherine Kirkhart. In order to protect the rights of the copyright holder, no portion of this publication may be rep ...Read more
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A recent headline in the New York Times declared: "Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer." The story, originating with Associated Press and reported by major news outlets everywhere, said this work was the largest study of its kind. Involving more than 1,800 heart bypass patients ...Read more
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A healthy view of God is an important tool that enables seriously ill patients to cope with their illness
ST News June 15, 2006
New research provides compelling evidence that healthy forms of spirituality play a pivotal role in helping HIV and cancer victims cope with their illnesses. Two recent studies found that patients with fatal diseases were able to improve their physical or emotional well-being ...Read more
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Perceptions of social support and hope help heart surgery patients recover
NEW ORLEANS – According to a recent study, faith-based positive religious resources can protect psychological well-being through enhanced hope and perceived social support during stressful experiences, like undergoing cardiac surgery. Furthermore, having negative religious thoughts and struggl ...Read more
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Holocaust survivor describes the value of prayer in today's world
Science and Theology News, August 2001
(August 16, 2006) To pray is something that we all need and we all cherish because it does do something to us. I believe, naturally, that we must teach each other the art, the necessity, the obligation and the beauty of prayer. Now, if prayer suggests humilit ...Read more
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February 15, 2006
[Editor's Note: Our friend, David Powlison, of the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, who also was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, has added some helpful expansions to John Piper’s ten points. Indented paragraphs beginning with "DP:" are written by Davi ...Read more
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Scientific studies over the last four decades have examined the role of both public and private religious expression on health and longevity. The studies have shown that the practice of religious activity improves health and increases longevity. The effect is seen even when other social/psychologica ...Read more
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MADISON - Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research that was funded by the National Cancer Institute.
"We know that man ...Read more
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The thoughts crept in, swirling around like villainous wraiths in an enveloping darkness, each with arrows pointed directly at her heart. Fears, anxieties, what ifs, devilish things … intent on robbing her of hope, light, faith, life, fight. The battle was on.
As the reality of a cancer diagnosis ...Read more
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Benefits of altruistic love are broken down in a new book, 'Why good things happen to good people.'
During his childhood on Long Island, N.Y., Stephen Post absorbed a lesson that is playing out powerfully in his and others' lives.
"Whenever I would get into an unhappy, down mood, my mother would always say, 'Well, Stevie, why don't you go out and help somebody,' " he recalls. "I would go out and ...Read more
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The Spiritual Journeys of the Sick & the Dying
"Pilgrim's Illness first appeared in the May 2007 issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity and is reprinted with permission. www.touchstonemag.com"
Any trip, even a small, repeated journey from one prosaic location to another and home again, can become a pilgrimage leading more and more ...Read more
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Romans 8:18-28
Before I entered college I hardly gave a thought to cancer and terminal illness. But ever since those college days death by disease has walked beside me all the way. Two of my college acquaintances died of leukemia and cancer of the lymph glands before they were 22. At seminary I watched Jim Morgan, ...Read more
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Reprinted by permission of the author
Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in this life and the next. I Timothy 4:8 (NLT)
A few years ago I made an entry about the value of being in God's presence in my journal. It reads “A huge part of my recent joy has been be ...Read more
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Posted with permission of Baptist Press, an official website of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention
Posted on Jan 8, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Cancer is an ugly visitor. It enters your home without asking. It rearranges your life. It takes over with or without your consent.
I remember a conversation about cancer with my friend Ricky several years ago. He told me his story of his father battli ...Read more
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Religiosity and Depression. Are people who have a spiritual relationship with a higher power more likely to get depressed? Or is it that depressed people tend to establish such relationships on the way to getting out of depression? Those are some of the questions being asked currently by researchers ...Read more
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Not all that long ago, you'd have had a hard time finding a research institute, an academic department or even a decent conference exploring the link between spirituality and health ...
But that's all changing. For rest of article, click here.
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Most folks probably couldn't locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it's at the top of your head -- aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does -- particular ...Read more
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In this article on Blog.Beliefnet.com, Therese J. Borchard gets specific about eight ways faith contributes to the healing process ... Read the article
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Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2009 for the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. One of the discussions was on whether religion and science can co-exist in harmony. To read the transcript ...Read more
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Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet by Harold G. Koenig, M.D.
The historically recent antipathy between religion and psychiatry stemming from Freud, Ellis, and other secular intellects has been gradually reversed through the influence of the wider movement over the last several decades to reintegrate spirituality into health care.
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For Judy Miller, prayer is her on-the-job partner. The words start forming the minute her handheld radio emits the piercing tone that alerts Wayland Area EMS personnel to a call for help.
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When it comes to quality and medicine, we're often comfortable discussing many subjects, such as the latest technologies, the newest journal findings, recent legislation, or even revised payment strategies. However, if we move the subject to the human aspect -- examining patient spiritual needs -- t ...Read more
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Going to church doesn’t guarantee you a disease-free life, and praying for someone won’t always make them get better faster.
But there’s growing evidence religion and spirituality are good for your health, several local health experts said.
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I am not a health care provider and cannot give specific medical advice. What I am is a three-time survivor of cancer who is thankful for being alive. I am not only surviving, but thriving. I want to use my story and my experiences to offer hope and support to others with cancer. And I want to use t ...Read more
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Survey finds religious beliefs could affect care of terminally ill patients
London -- Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new study in Britain. For whole article, click here.
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Research explores whether spirituality may be good for the body as well as the soul
When Virgie Aguilar -- a 93-year-old church-going, car-driving, wishes-she-was-still-working great-great-grandmother -- tells you the Lord moves her, she means it. For rest of article, click here.
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Are You Operating on False Assumptions about Prayer?
Used by permission of Discipleship Journal. Copyright © (date of article), The Navigators. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved.
Prayer, like other popular Christian topics, can become a victim of myth. Our human tendency to "map out" everything according to our own way of thinking ...Read more
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A new report indicates that those who believe in God not only live a healthier life but also add 14 years to their life.
According to the new report published by U.K.-based Christian Medical Fellowship, those who have faith carry positive health benefits such as coping with illness, faster recovery ...Read more
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Five Tried and True Principles for Finding and Claiming God's Promises
This article is posted with permission from NavPress: http://www.navpress.com/pray/; http://www.praynetwork.org/
Claiming God's promises is a common practice in the body of Christ. But how each individual goes about claiming a promise varies considerably. On one end of the spectrum are those who cl ...Read more
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Published June 3, 2011 in The New York Times
More Americans are praying about their health, researchers have concluded.
Scientists analyzed data on 30,080 adults ages 18 and older who took part in the National Health Interview Survey in 2002 and on 22,306 adults who participated in 2007.
Forty-nine percent of adults said in 2007 that they ...Read more
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Choral singing is great for health: It engages people mentally and physically. There is also a strong social networking benefit of a shared activity that is often emotionally uplifting. Now, if this experience occurs in a church service, does it produce even greater well-being and happiness? Is ther ...Read more
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