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Facing a blank page can be an exercise in courage. stellalevi/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

June 9, 2023

Drawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring more humanity to health care in US hospitals

Marlaine Figueroa Gray, University of Washington

Art, music and poetry therapy can help patients feel more optimistic and less isolated as well as to embrace the uncertainty that comes with illness.

D.O.s like Sean Conley, physician to the president, can face stigma from people who don’t understand the practice. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

October 16, 2020

What is osteopathic medicine? A D.O. explains

Andrea Amalfitano, Michigan State University

Almost 10% of physicians in the US are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and that proportion is rising. Their medical knowledge matches that of other doctors; the difference is the philosophy behind it.

Dr Auguste Rollier (centre) examines a patient at the heliotherapy Clinique Miremont, Leysin, Switzerland. Clinique Miremont postcard

April 30, 2020

It can’t cure COVID-19, but sunlight was long seen as having healing powers

Ilaria Scaglia, Aston University

Sunlight is not a cure for everything, and certainly not for COVID-19, but 100 years ago it was a popular treatment.

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Ilaria Scaglia
Senior Lecturer in History, Aston University
Andrea Amalfitano
Dean of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Marlaine Figueroa Gray
Assistant Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, University of Washington

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