Is laughter good for our health?

As a doctor I daily pump my patients full of medicine or arrange the latest high-tech therapies in the optimistic hope that it will help cure their problem. But if I can make them roar with laughter, then I really feel I've scored! At the least I've helped them forget about their troubles and genuinely improved the quality of their life, if only for a brief few seconds. But some experts would have you believe that I'll have done more than that and actually helped to stimulate their immune system to fight its own battles. Read more