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CHICAGO - Women who underwent hypnosis before breast cancer surgery needed less anesthesia and had fewer side effects than women who got counseling instead, U. S. researchers said on Tuesday.
" This is a randomized clinical trial of 200 patients that really showed beneficial effects for patients," said Guy Montgomery of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. " It really works well."
While hypnosis was used to control the pain of amputations in India more than 150 years ago, its use is still not routine....

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Interesting story, but weak in terms of accurate and complete information. Benefits are not sufficiently quantified (how was pain measured and what was the difference between the two groups? What was the difference in the amounts of anesthesia?) and harms are not mentioned. The novelty of the treatment is well explained.

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