An NHS hospital has been found guilty of making bogus claims about the benefits of hypnosis for serious medical conditions. The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine has been told to withdraw ...

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Anaesthesiologists have found that using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) in surgery where LA is feasible but, not on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort, can aid healing ...

Janet Golden Balzer is about to hypnotize you. She doesn’t have a pendulum, swinging pocket-watch or a black and white spiral. And she promises she’s not going to make you quack like a duck.

Koraly Lefrançois was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease last April and has had to undergo some pretty uncomfortable medical procedures at the Montreal Children's Hospital since then. The nine-year-old ...

HYPNOSIS can be used to help anxious children cope with needles, surgery and other hospital procedures, Australia’s peak anaesthetic body says. Simple suggestion and mind control techniques are ...

Patients who are put in a trance just before the operation spend less time in hospital and also have fewer side effects if they need chemotherapy. They are hypnotised by an anaesthetist who talks ...

Hypnosis is emerging as a powerful medical treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD and a range of other conditions. Can it shake off its reputation as a stage magician's trick? When David Spiegel was told ...

The Juliana children’s hospital in The Hague is to start using hypnosis in an effort to reduce pain, stress and fear among patients, the AD reports on Monday. Hypnosis will only be used if children ...

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