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Tag Archives: placebos
Being Mindful of World Health Day
This article first appeared on Australia’s national forum, Online Opinion. There’ll be a functional cure for AIDs; your brain waves will be able to be manipulated to jog memory or scratch bad recollections; and, bandages will indicate how healing is … Continue reading
Posted in CAM, Christian Science, Health care, Health policy, Kay's posts, Meditation and prayer, Placebos
Tagged alternative therapies, CAM, complementary medicine, Donald Moss, Larson & Larson, mental nature of health, mind/body, mindfulness, Parkinson's disease, placebo effect, placebo research, placebos, The Circle of the Soul: The Role of Spirituality in Health Care, World Health Day, World Parkinson's Day
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Want the Happiest of New Years? Trust Your Instinct to Care
This article was first published on these APN regional news websites: Toowoomba Chronicle, Bundaberg NewsMail, the Northern Star and Fraser Coast Chronicle. A friend related how an acquaintance was in hospital recently, suffering from a life-threatening illness. Things were looking pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged care, consciousness, Dr Lissa Rankin, God, health predictions, health professionals, healthcare, instinct, Institute of Noetic Sciences, kindness, Mary Baker Eddy, medical practitioners, medicine, New Year, New Year's Resolutions, placebos, TEDx Talk, The Bible, the divine, the good Samaritan
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Top of our Christmas Wish-List is Health
Versions of this blog article are published on the national forum, Online Opinion, as Know what’s at the top of our Christmas wish list? Health, and What’s at the top of your Christmas wish-list? on the APN media website. “All I … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged A Current Affair, All I want for Christmas, All I want for Christmas is the gift of good health, asthma, depression, Dr Damien Finiss, Dr Irving Kirsch, drugs, healthcare, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, Mary Baker Eddy, medicine, migraine, Mind over Medicine, osteoarthritis, pain, placebo effect, placebos, reason for the Season, Spirituality, The Placebo Effect: A Conversation with Dr Irving Kirsch
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Health: Predetermined? Fate? For sale?
There’s a game where the price for goods that you produce is determined by a god called “Theoi”. Participants have the option of contributing some of their goods to Theoi in the hope of ‘pacifying him’ and becoming more successful. … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, Spirituality, placebos, genetics, Gilbert Welch, The Conversation, Theoi, Professor Paul Fritjers, University of Queensland, gambling, sacrifice, eugenics, genetic testing, over-diagnosis, over-treatment, Over-diagnosis epidemic, procreation, Julian Savulescu, life a lottery
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Obese Nation or Opportunity for New Health Model?
This post was first published on ON LINE Opinion, Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate, as Connect the dots out of an obesity epidemic to ‘picture of health’. My childhood friend was getting quite plump, had trouble running and … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged anorexia, bulimia, Christian Science, consciousness and wellbeing, Dana Godman, Dr Harold Koenig, eating disorders, health, Mark Bittman, Mary Baker Eddy, new health model, Obese Nation, obesity, placebos, Shannon McKeown, Spirituality, spirituality and health research, weight loss starts from the inside out
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Health – what’s love got to do with it?
Where does the love that heals come from? I think my guest blogger today answers this question really well. Check out today’s post by Anna Bowness-Park, media spokesperson for Christian Science in British Columbia, Canada. Have you ever stood in … Continue reading
Posted in Health care
Tagged Anna Bowness-Park, benefits of meditation, British Medical Journal, health, love, meditation, nursing, placebos, wellbeing
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Are you mesmerised by the hungry wolf on the web?
This blog post was first published on Online Opinion. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged Australian Family Physician, DIY health, Dr Craig Hassad, Dr Google, Dr Herbert Bensen, Generation XXX - is online access to porn harming kids?, health, Insight, Internet use, Marc Siegel, Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy, nocebos, online traffic, placebos, porn, sexualisation, social media, spiritual approach to healthcare, Two Wolves
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AFTER THE PLACEBO EFFECT
Trials with placebos mean that we now know that there is a definite mental aspect to how we deal with sickness. So, what now? Peter Van Vleck, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Colorado, elaborates. Here it is now more … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Christian Science, drug testing, effects of anti depressants, Harvard Medical School, inert tablets, Irving Kirsch, Leslie Stahl, nocebo effect, Peter Van Vleck, placebo effect, placebos, Scientific research, sham surgery, Treating depression: Is there a placebo effect?
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Placebo Studies Shed New Light on Mind-Body Connection
Interesting results for patients with Parkinson’s disease make this a must-read from my guest blogger today, Bob Cummings, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Michigan, USA. Expertise and Placebo Research in Italy I remember walking around the city of Rome … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Bob Cummings, Fabrizio Benedetti MD, health, mind-body connection, National Institute of Neuroscience Turin, Neurobiological mechanisms of the placebo effect, Parkinson's disease, placebo effect, Placebo Project, Placebo Study Group Harvard University, placebos, Placebos and painkillers: is mind as real as matter?, research in Italy, Spirituality, thought, Turin Medical School
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Can a change of thought really cure an allergy?
Just yesterday I read in an article in the online Medical Journal of Australia that “Allergic diseases increased dramatically throughout the 20th century, a change that has been described as an “epidemic”. And what’s more, “The incidence of allergic disease … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged allergies, cerebro-spinal meningitis healed, Channel 7 Sunrise, Children, Christian Science, Clinical and Experiemental Allergy, Courier Mail, dyspepsia healed, echinacea, eczema healed, Global issues, hay-fever cured, Healing, Health care, Kay Stroud, Leigh Dayton, Mary Baker Eddy, Medical Journal of Australia, medicine, physical sciences, placebos, Prayer, Science and Health, scientific healing prayer, scientific prayer, Scientific research, The Australian, vitamin C
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Why do placebos work?
I’m reposting this item from Sharon Frey, Media Manager for the Christian Science Church in Boston, USA. Thought-provoking stuff! Some scientists are digging into a fascinating question – why do sugar cubes have an effect? In a blog network that highlights … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged blog network, Christian Science, clinical trials, CTV, Healing, Health care, Kay Stroud, Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals, Negative thinking can stop painkillers from working, nocebo effect, patients' expectations, placebo effect, placebos, Sharon Frey, Steve Silberman, sugar pills
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