Researchers are pairing a complementary therapy known as Healing Touch with mild sedation to see if the technique truly calms patients undergoing minor procedures. Often, a gentle hand on your ...

Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease create moments of disconnection for sufferers and their families. Nearly 6 million Americans, more than 40,000 here in the Hudson Valley, experience this during daily ...

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

Rae Lord “Ginger” Crowe, a nurse practitioner and longtime professor of nursing who became an early advocate of therapeutic touch, died Sunday of complications from dementia. She was 85. Crowe, who ...

In therapy settings across the globe, dogs are trusted partners in healing. They sit beside children learning to read, comfort veterans battling posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and offer a ...