ITEMS OF INTEREST June 20, 2005 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Anita Manning, Rich Gettie, Ellen Lee

"MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE WHO RESPONDED to a USA Today/ ABC News/Stanford University Medical Center poll released [May 23] say they use prayer to control pain. Of those, 90 percent say it worked well, and 51 percent say 'very well.' "...

"This comes as no surprise to preachers and doctors who say they have seen the way personal faith can influence a patient's reaction to all kinds of pain, psychological or physical.

"'Prayer enables you to take your mind and place it in a new perspective,' says family doctor Harold Betton.... By focusing on prayer, he says, believers reduce stress and gain control over pain."

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