Spirituality and Health

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of this column. Fifty-two weeks, fifty columns (hey, a guy’s gotta have a break sometime) and a whole lot of eye-opening insights into the increasingly undeniable connection between consciousness and healt...

Dr. James Doty is a world-class neurosurgeon and professor at Stanford University. He’s an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who supports a number of global health initiatives; a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Medical...

Ask Dr. Eric Willmarth, a pain management specialist and instructor at San Francisco-based Saybrook University, what it’s going to take for mind-body medicine to gain a credible and lasting foothold and he’ll tell you that it’s us. Not insurance ...

Call me crazy, but before I go grocery shopping, I prefer to make a list. Like most folks, I’ve figured out that knowing what I need depends on knowing what I already have in store. Why buy a gallon of milk when there’s still a half-gallon in ...

Donald Berwick is a man on a mission. After a brief stint as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and, before that, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), he’s taking his plan for qu...

Is there anything we could have done to prevent this from happening?It’s a question asked too often these days, most recently following the tragic events near Albuquerque, New Mexico where a 15-year old boy is accused of murdering his parents and thr...

The great health care reform countdown has begun, with nearly every American required to have some level of health insurance by the end of this year. That much we know for certain. What remains to be seen, however, is whether simply adding more people ...

A study published in the July 2012 issue of Explore provides further evidence that the prayers of one individual used to treat a physical condition of another may – or may not – help.How’s that for definitive?Depending on the methods used, the co...

In a play on Dr. Seuss’ popular children’s book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, the theme of health care giant Kaiser Permanente’s entry in this year’s Rose Parade was “Oh, the Healthy Things You Can Do.”Featuring well-known characters such a...

On Christmas Eve my wife and I enjoyed our newest holiday tradition, watching Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, at the historic Stanford Theatre in nearby Palo Alto. The movie is vintage Capra: A sentimental storyline, loveabl...