Meditation

Focusing on mental health is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions U.S. adults are making for 2024, according to a press release from the American Psychiatric Association.

Despite both patients and oncologists approving of complementary and integrative therapies as part of cancer management, a survey identified a disconnect between oncologists’ perception of patient interest and actual attitudes.

A virtual mind-body fitness program reduced unplanned hospitalizations, number of hospitalization days and urgent care visits among patients undergoing active cancer treatment, study results showed.

SEATTLE — Patients who worked with a life care specialist after orthopedic trauma injury may experience improved pain outcomes at 3 months postoperatively, according to results presented here.

A patient with long-standing irritable bowel syndrome came to her gastroenterologist after a flare, indicating that she had stopped responding to her medication.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Mindfulness exercises may help improve both physical and mental outcomes in patients with inflammatory diseases, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

BALTIMORE — Practicing meditation and mindfulness can reduce diabetes distress and improve diet, HbA1c, sleep and overall quality of life for people with diabetes, according to two speakers.

Black cancer survivors expressed interest in mind-body interventions such as yoga and tai chi but often lacked awareness of and access to these practices, according to review results published in Integrative Cancer Therapies.

Mindfulness-based interventions may ease burnout, increase compassion and improve the patient-physician relationship, according to a presentation at Healing Healthcare: A Global Mindfulness Summit.

Transcendental meditation may be a useful intervention for lowering systolic BP in Black patients with high-normal BP, according to study data published in American Journal of Preventive Cardiology.