Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Study tests healing power of laughter

Published in Health and Medicine Week, March 29th, 2004

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital want to know whether adding therapies like massage, humor and relaxation training to the standard drug regimen does more than provide short-lived relief for young cancer patients.

They also are asking whether such complementary approaches also ease pain, nausea and other treatment side effects as well as help patients recover faster and leave the hospital sooner. They landed a 5-year, $2 million National Cancer Institute grant to find out.

The study will involve 282 patients ages 6-18 undergoing stem cell transplants at St. Jude and children's hospitals in Toronto, Philadelphia and Columbus,...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2004-03-29)

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