A randomized double-blind study of the effect of distant healing in a population with advanced AIDS: Report of a small scale study

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 356-363

  Sicher, Fred ^a,b   Targ, Elisabeth ^a,b,c   Moore II, Dan ^a,c   Smith, Helene S ^a,d  

^a Geraldine Brush Cancer Res Inst   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL HEALING; OFFICE VISITS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032421226     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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