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Timeless treatments
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the highest ranking choice of alternative medicine, ahead of homeopathy, ayurvedic, chiropractic and unani. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:20:07 GMT)
How to choose the best multivitamin
Many people take just one supplement, a multivitamin. Here are some tips for choosing the best multivitamin, from Andrew Weil, founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, which focuses on combining alternative treatments with conventional medical practices. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:43:55 GMT)
Bee stings as medicine?
McClatchy-Tribune News Service Reyah Carlson has been stung by bees more than 25,000 times. On purpose. Carlson is a practitioner of apitherapy, a controversial form of alternative medicine that uses bee venom to treat everything from arthritis to multiple sclerosis. She is a featured speaker at the 2010 North American Beekeepers Conference in Orlando, Fla., this week. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:42:26 GMT)
Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents'
THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 12 percent of children and adolescents in the United States use complementary or alternative medicines, known as CAM, according to Harvard Medical School researchers. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:03:17 GMT)
Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents'
About 12 percent of U.S. youths report using treatments, study finds. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:10:34 GMT)
Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents'
Title: Kids' Use of Alternative Therapies Often Mimics Parents' Category: Health News Created: 1/28/2010 8:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2010 (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:24:14 GMT)
Mass overdose of alternative medicines planned
The New Zealand Skeptics Society is planning a mass “overdose” of alternative medicines, attempting to prove that homeopathic remedies are nothing but “sham and sugar”. (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:32:06 GMT)
Sports Medicine Clinic offers PRP therapy to heal injured ligaments, tendons and muscles
The Sports Medicine Clinic at the University of Virginia Health System is using a cutting-edge therapy called platelet rich plasma (PRP) to help heal injured ligaments, tendons and muscles. (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:23:16 GMT)
New compound could be alternative strategy for preventing HIV infection
With the help of effective drug therapies, HIV patients are living longer, healthier lives. Now, researchers want to improve these drug therapies and develop alternative preventative strategies, such as vaginal gels and creams that contain the same or related compounds used in treatments for people infected with HIV. A new compound being developed is more potent and longer-lasting than current ... (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:25:35 GMT)
Officials Plan Alternative Use For UPMC Braddock
As UPMC Braddock prepares to close its doors, officials are working on alternative plans for the building. (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:52:17 GMT)
New Longevity Medicine Review Website Reveals the Science Behind Anti-Aging and Human Longevity
Longevity Medicine Review’s new website at www.lmreview.com features reviews & analysis of the latest in anti-aging and longevity medicine. (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT)
Alternative medicine in spotlight at fair
By Allison Arteaga Maria Minno was frustrated.She says she was suffering from chronic mercury poisoning, and there seemed to be nothing doctors could do to help her. Tired, sick and desperate for change, she turned to the world of alternative medicine.She says she has never looked back. (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:11:03 GMT)
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald: Calming The Shen: A Chinese Medicine Approach To A Good Night's Sleep
When evaluating Shen, the Chinese Medicine practitioner is looking for the emotional state and presence (or lack) of radiance, calm, and balance. Chinese Medicine would call this "disturbed shen." (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:40:13 GMT)
Homeopathy: medicine that's hard to swallow?
Protesters staged a mass 'overdose' of homeopathic remedies yesterday but, asks Laura Donnelly, what did they prove? (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:15:10 GMT)
Homeopathy overdose staged to discredit drugs
Hundreds of sceptics will stage a “mass overdose” outside Boots stores, a chain of chemists’ stores that sells the alternative medicine, around Britain on Sunday to protest against the chain’s continuing sale of homeopathic remedies and to argue that such treatments have no scientific basis. (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:47 GMT)
Veterinarians expanding alternative care
BEND — Inside an examination room at the Holistic Clinic for Animals in Bend, veterinarian Susan Bertram gently strokes a thin black-and-white dog. Maggie, a McNab herding dog, stands rigid and anxious on top of the exam table while Bertram feels for a pulse underneath one hind leg. The exam … (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:12:44 GMT)
Health bill provision in Congress could broaden care options
The big business of alternative medicine in the United States could be getting bigger. (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:08:20 GMT)
Telling "both sides" [Respectful Insolence]
This may be a bit over the top, but it does rather point out what is in effect done when journalists lazily present "both sides" of issues that don't really have two sides, at least not two sides that are anywhere in the same universe as far as scientific validity: I do rather think that they could have found a better example for "Western" versus "alternative" medicine. That part of the video ... (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:47:49 GMT)
Iran left with no choice but to produce 20% enriched fuel: former MP
TEHRAN, Jan. 31 (MNA) – A former lawmaker stated here on Sunday that the West has left Iran with no alternative but to enrich uranium to 20 percent level needed for its medicine reactor. (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:59:31 GMT)
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