Recommended Web Sites

Stress: Laughter Can Be Good Medicine - Baptist Hospital offers this information.

HowStuffWorks: Laughter and Health - Part of the How Stuff Works website, this page discusses what laughter is, what happens in our brains when we laugh, what makes us laugh and how it can make us healthier and happier.

Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor - This organization was created to educate health care professionals about the therapeutic effects of humor, and to support research into the subject.

Choose Your Medicine: Laughter, Music, Optimism - Prevention magazine offers this information.

Good Humor, Good Health - Learn about the benefits of laughter and how to use humor to stay healthy. This article by the Director of Preventative Medicine for Kaiser Permanente first appeared in the Mind/Body Health Newsletter, published by the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge.

Healing Humor - This site offers an online course on humor and healing. You may take it for free just to learn about it; or you may take it for RN continuing education credits.

The Healing Power of Humor - This article from PsychCentral offers ideas on how to put humor back into your life.

Humor and Laughter: Health Benefits and Online Resources - Great quotes, great information and links to other sites here.

Humor Matters - This site, created by a licensed psychologist, contains a huge amount of information on humor and healing.

Humor Therapy - HolisticOnline offers lots of information about humor as good medicine here.

Is Laughter the Best Medicine? - The Muscular Dystrophy Association has published this information on the benefits of laughter.

Is Laughter the Best Medicine, or Any Medicine at All? - To be fair, here is also an article refuting the healing power of laughter.

Jest for the Health of It: Humor and Healing Articles - Patty Wooten, BSN, the author of these articles, is also a past President of the American Association for Therapeutic Humor, author of two books related to humor, and a national speaker presenting on the benefits of humor.

Laugh Your Way to Good Health - Reader's Digest produced this article.

Laughter and Health Articles - The Arlington Laughter Club has assembled these links.

Medical Jokes from DocFunny - A healthy helping of doctor jokes can be found at this site.

Nursing Humor - This site, from NurseFriendly provides jokes and humorous stories divided into categories.