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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The earliest known writings about herbal medicines date back to 2800 B.C. in China, and many people believe that electromedicine goes back to the time of Aristotle. But while many complementary or alternative modalities may not be new, these alternative measures are still not well understood by many Americans.
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full and free download (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Matthew Leach Lecturer in Naturopathy, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia – City East Campus, Adelaide SA, Australia Over the past decade, increasing use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and its integration into mainstream health care, has raised questions about the level of evidence for the safety and efficacy of these interventions. This text is one of an emerging...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Naturopaths are strongly in favour of regulation of their industry, a University of Queensland researcher has found. Naturopaths believed that regulation would lift the quality of practitioners, improve patient safety, promote research and allow for greater collaboration between complementary and conventional medicine, researcher Jon Wardle, a PhD student with the School of Population Health, said....
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ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Therapeutic use of essential oils in the alternative health and wellness arena is on the rise; more and more people are venturing beyond mainstream 'aroma' therapy and finding the value in true therapeutic grade Aromatherapy products. Education regarding the efficacy of essential oils in treating certain illness has been hard to come by in the US, a symptom of much of the natural health industry. There...
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Article Master (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Alternative medicine can be described as a medical treatment that rejects conventional medicine and follows other courses of action. This may include using herbal remedies, acupuncture, and aromatherapy whilst all the while incorporating the self awareness of the patient. This is probably the largest difference between alternative medicine and conventional treatment; it tries to incorporate [...]
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denialism blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
I hadn't realized that Vermont has passed a law requiring insurers to cover naturopathic care . We've covered extensively the quackery that is naturopathy , but really, if a patient chooses to see a quack, it's their business. But with health care costs soaring, requiring insurers to pay for voodoo is a rather bad idea. Already, many plans cover chiropractic, another unproven treatment. Throwing more...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Many people use "alternative" or complementary products because they see them as a more gentle form of medicine. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has now analysed the latest research on several products and released the results along with a guide for consumers. St John's wort (hypericum), for example, could help ease mild depression, but it does not help with severe depression....
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http://podblack.wordpress.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
I hope you’ve read the book ‘Trick or Treatment’ - now you can check out their challenge! First, a great article in the SMH on ‘The Case against Cure Alls’: It is a very timely tome, with the Federal Government considering a toughening of requirements for Australia’s $2 billion complementary medicine industry to disclose the evidence [...]
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Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Web site re-design for a friend’s Holistic Health business in Dublin. Re-Live June 2008 -... STRESS BUSTERS IRELAND RE-DESIGN Reverb Studios Multimedia Web Design Blog Leitrim Ireland A Few Questions for Ruairi Quinn GOREY MUSLIM COMMUNITY See 0 more posts on this topic: June 2008, Live June, 08 June, Migrant Workers, Sc Data Keywords: june , june 2008 , 2008 , MONTH06 , stressbustersireland , health...
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Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
This is not at all funny but I guess ironic might be a better word. The science blogosphere has been alight this past week with the recognition of naturopathy by the state of Minnesota as well as other aspects of alternative medicine. As if the risks of going to an alternative practitioner are not enough, here is an alarming case from Sacramento, CA, of a patient dying at the hands of someone posing...
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Articles Database (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
There are plenty of articles written on what is the definition of acne and what are the causes of acne. This article will focus on the alternative treatments that you might not be familiar with. Alternative acne treatments include nutrition, herbs, vitamins, aromatherapy acupressure, Reflexology and other types of treatments to help you with acne [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) berries are well known for their cholesterol busting properties, but scientists in India say that its leaves are also rich in anti-oxidants and may help ward off liver disease, according to new research due to be published in the Society of Chemical Industry's (SCI) Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
XenaCare Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: XCHO) announced, after an 8-month development program, the official launch of their new product called the SunPill®. The SunPill® is a dietary supplement that helps the skin protect itself from the harmful rays of the sun. It contains scientifically researched ingredients.
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James O'Malley... Living Legend (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
This may seem familiar to you if you've watched this video. I’ve been reading up on homeopathy recently - it's an alternative form of medicine to the sort of thing you get in hospitals. It's “alternative” in the sense that unlike regular medicine, it doesn't actually work. To cut a long story short, the premise is that [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Acupuncture provides effective relief from hot flushes in women who are being treated with the anti-oestrogen tamoxifen following surgery for breast cancer, according to new research presented today (Friday) at the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) in Berlin.
