ITEMS of INTEREST

with contributions from Dale A. Matthews, Donna Koehn, Maggie Downs

"Many doctors and patients have learned from personal experience that religious faith is good medicine. In recent years, hundreds of clinical studies have demonstrated that this statement is not simply a matter of faith, but rather of science.

"People who regularly attend worship services enjoy better health than their counterparts with fewer religious ties. Peer-reviewed studies have found that their advantages include:

• Lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and other serious conditions

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