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The one thing that will keep mind-body medicine out of the mud

As trailblazing as it may seem, the field of mind-body medicine appears to be stuck in the mud, still trying to extract itself from the...

Dear Isabella, What a joy it was to watch you taking part in your first Holy Communion. Everything about the event – the music, the...

The first thing I remember as I regained consciousness, lying in a hospital emergency room, was hearing a nurse ask my mom if I was...

“It’s interesting to be in San Francisco, to be near Silicon Valley, [where] we get so titillated by the idea of our machines becoming...

The following talk was presented by Eric Nelson at the April 2017 Stanford Medicine X | ED, an academic medical conference hosted by...

“The difference between placebos and prayer,” said Dr. Harold Koenig during a workshop he was giving at Duke University’s Center for...

Even if you’re not much of a Bible reader, you’ve likely heard the story. God creates Adam, and out of Adam he creates Eve. He tells them...

Just before the 2012 presidential election, researchers from the University of Notre Dame determined that the less people lie, the better...

Although I have no scientific evidence to back me up, I’d say a good number of religious people, as engaged and compassionate as they may...

It’s ironic, perhaps, that an essential element in healing hate was articulated so simply, so profoundly, by someone who had just been...