Yoga on the Cancer Ward

Most philanthropists are happy to their names embossed on a plaque on a hospital wing.  Not Donna Karan, the fashion designer, who is bringing yoga teachers onto the cancer ward.

In One Section of Beth Israel Hospital, Some Patients Are Saying 'Om', not 'Ah'

While other hospitals in New York and across the country have dabbled in yoga, the new Beth Israel project is broader, better financed and more integrated into the medical protocol, and because of Ms. Karan’s concern that it might be dismissed as touchy-feely nonsense, it includes a research component. Ms. Karan hopes to prove that the Urban Zen regime can reduce classic symptoms of cancer and its treatment, like pain, nausea and anxiety (thereby cutting hospital stays and costs) and serve as a model for replication elsewhere.