A Chuckle a day…..by Janet Cromley, Times Staff Writer for the Los Angles Times, April 10, 2006

»Is Laughter the Best Medicine? By Anne Blair Gould, June 6, 2005. Check out this article from Radio Netherlands.

»"Laugh It Up" by Kathy Grant Westbrook. Our State magazine, January 2005. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Carolina Ha Ha prescribes a healthy dose of humor to combat pain and stress and to help folks feel more positive. For Ruth Hamilton, laughter is serious business. It eases the suffering of hospital patients, lowers stress levels in the corporate world, and contributes to the well-being of communities. Hamilton promotes the use of humor in these settings, with help from a dedicated group of volunteers, through Carolina Health and Humor Association — Carolina Ha Ha, for short, a nonprofit organization she co-founded in 1986.

The Best Medicine
By Vicki Cheng, Staff Writer
Appeared in the March 31 2005 News and Observer, Durham, NC

Armed with rubber chickens and toothy grins, humor therapists tap patients' funny bones. Ruth Hamilton is not above stashing squeakers in her bra to get a laugh out of a cancer patient. And Carol Cato has been known to take an hour off from counseling patients at WakeMed to ride the go-carts at Adventure Landing, skirt and all.

» Laughter's Link to Health May Be in the Blood by Rob Stein. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.  Mar 14, 2005.

The Funny Thing About Laughter by Jeffrey Kluger
Time, January 17,2005 . A preview of the article can be viewed at the Time's Web site. Check your local library for the complete article.

»Reader's Digest
Laughter can be therapeutic. Check out these articles.

» Humor's Healing Potential
Laughter provides emotional and physiological benefits to patients and care givers alike.

» The Laughing Cure
Why a hearty guffaw may really be the best medicine.

» Lighten Up
A chuckle a day

» Humor: An antidote for stress.
Taken from the Journal For Holistic Nursing Practice

» Physiological Effects of Laughter
Taken from the Journal For Nursing Jocularity

» How can you laugh at a time like this?
Humor, no matter when it comes, helps us bear the unbearable.