FOX 11- Monday June 14, 2004
Fox11-Lisa's LA - aired Liza Boubari during one of her Hypno-Massages.  This is one of the most profound ways of healing.  Having massage while hypnotic suggestions are given for weight loss, pain control, healing and much more.  See: Hypno-Massage

ON AIR STORIES

April 25, 2006 — It's conventional wisdom that if you want to shed some weight, you head to the gym and eat less. It turns out, however, that sleeping may be one of the best things people can do to get thin. "There's convincing evidence that a good night's sleep really can pay dividends in terms of weight control," said "Good Morning America" medical contributor Dr. David Katz. Other Alternatives - For those who feel that sleep alone cannot possibly help you lose weight, hypnosis is catching on as a tool in the battle of the bulge. Experts say it can boost determination and willpower. Australian hypnotherapist Rick Collingwood has been having some success with his hypnosis CDs. About 60 percent of his patients noticed a difference when they played the CDs imploring them to lay off the food intake. They play the CDs 45 minutes a day, six days a week.

Los Angeles Times - Health - January 5, 2004
Hypnotic reach  - Doctors find recovery is aided by helping patients into healing trances. By: Benedict Carey.

Business Week - Health  - February 2, 2004
There's Entrancing News About Hypnosis  
It's gaining credibility as a treatment for multitude of troubles, from nicotine addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder.  By: Kate Murphy  

Los Angeles Times L - Health  -  February 5, 2001
The Healing, Human Touch of Massage   By: Barrie Cassileth

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - July 2001
Shattering Myths about Hypnosis - By: Michael R. Nash
Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses - especially in controlling pain.

AMERICAN HEALTH FOR WOMEN - October 1998
Healing with Hypnosis - The age-old technique is garnering new respect for its ability to treat everything from dental anxiety to back pain.  Are you a candidate?  By:  Susan Davis

St. Luke Hospitals; Massage Therapy
At The St. Luke Hospitals, our certified massage therapist practices the art of therapeutic massage to relieve everyday stress and anxiety and to promote long-term health and wellness. These services are provided at The St. Luke Hospital East. Hour-long massages are available.

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Hypnosis Works
The power of trance can no longer be disputed, a psychiatrist at Stanford University says. Now we just have to use it.   
By Michael Abrams       Photography by Dan Winters
DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 11 | November 2004 | Mind & Brain
The patient is 80 years old. She is lying under the bright lights of an operating room at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where radiologist Elvira Lang is about to thread a catheter through her arteries. The tiny tube will work its way to one of the woman’s kidneys, where it will block the organ’s blood supply. A surgeon is scheduled to remove the kidney the next day. Embolizing the kidney will help keep the operation simple, safe, and tidy. But the woman is running a fever, and her kidney may be infected. Because she ate earlier in the day, she can’t be given a sedative. What should have been a routine procedure has become an ordeal.
 “This is your safe and pleasant place to be,” one of Lang’s associates reads from a laminated card. “You can use it in a sense to play a trick on the doctors. Your body has to be here, but you don’t.”     (to be continued

Hospitals Getting a Grip: Massage Therapy Finds Place in Patient Care for FM and More
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12-28-2004 By Hilary E. MacGregor ( Los Angeles Times) 
You lie on the crisp, white sheet of the massage table in semidarkness. The scent of almond oil fills the air. Then come the hands, gently kneading the necklace of knots that rings your back, your neck, your shoulders. You close your eyes, breathe deeply and let yourself relax. Beyond the pleasures of the moment, though, are there medical benefits to massage?  Hospitals and medical clinics around the United States are beginning to integrate massage into patient care. Massage is currently the most common nontraditional therapy offered in U.S. hospitals, according to an American Hospital Association survey in 2003. The most common uses for massage in hospitals: helping patients cope with pain and stress, and as a therapeutic service for cancer and maternity patients.

At Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville , Va. , cancer patients are offered therapeutic massage by one of eight trained therapists. Longmont United Hospital in Colorado has a massage therapist on staff around the clock for patients who need or request it. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York , 11 massage therapists are on a staff team working with hundreds of patients admitted to the hospital or seen at its various clinics.  And at the U CLA Center for East-West Medicine, a team of four therapists uses massage to alleviate pain and symptoms for patients suffering from illnesses such as fibromyalgia, migraines and back pain.      (continued...)