Author: Meghan Rabbitt

A growing number of American doctors are looking East as science seems to confirm that mindfulness meditation can play a role in reducing a need for meds for some patients. A 2015 study in JAMA Internal Medicine, for example, concluded that mindfulness meditation improved sleep quality in older adults, and mounting evidence suggests that a meditation practice can ease stress, chronic pain, anxiety, depression and even improve outcomes in treatments for addiction and cancer. More recent studies have come to similar conclusions. For example, a meta-analysis — a study of studies — published in JAMA Psychiatry in June 2016 found…

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