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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Worshipping Prozac

It’s amazing how the views of society can change, whether the views held are on medication, health, religion or astronomy. My colleague in Florida, Bob Clark, shares some life-changing results of recent research into the placebo effect. “Over the past … Continue reading

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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

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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

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