Wikio - Alternative care

The largest "randomized" acupuncture study ever done: Why did they even bother? (Respectful Insolence)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:19:04 GMT

Believe it or not, there was one area of so-called "alternative" medicine that I used to be a lot less skeptical about than I am now. Homeopathy, I always realized to be a load of pseudoscientific magical thinking. Ditto reiki , therapeutic touch, and other forms of "energy healing." It didn't take an extensive review of the literature to figure that out, although I did ultimately end up doing fairly...

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Explore : Health, Homeopathy, Sciences

Fraud Discovery Institute Retracts Herbalife Accusations - California (Medical News Today)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) and the Fraud Discovery Institute announced that the Fraud Discovery Institute retracts its accusations against multi-level marketer Herbalife. Herbalife and the Fraud Discovery Institute reached the agreement to avoid litigation.

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Race-Based Medications, Supplements 'Misleading,' Opinion Piece Says (Medical News Today)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT

The "development of race-based products such as vitamins and drugs" by pharmaceutical manufacturers is "misleading the public to believe that races are biologically distinct, requiring race-specific products, but the basis for their wares flies in the face of science," Susanne Haga, an assistant research professor at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences Policy and Public Policy, writes in...

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Massachusetts Residents with Brain Injury Ready to Leave Nursing Homes for Their Homes (JFActivist)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:48:39 GMT

From The Boston Globe (August 14): Many brain injury patients poised to quit nursing homes for freer lives Settlement to let Medicaid cover alternative care By Carey Goldberg CANTON - Just 29 years old, Kaya Alexander lives in a nursing...

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Bernie Mac Another Casualty of Conventional Medicine? (Green Fertility)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:02:00 GMT

The following from Natural News is interesting because I've been studying homeopathy and some other alternative forms of medicines like Scheussler's cell salts and Bach Flower remedies, and the underlying thread of these therapies is that you don't want to squash the symptoms and make them go back IN and attack vital organs, you want them to come OUT. I read in Dr. Weil's book about someone with a...

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County Plans for Dispersed Care in a Pandemic (Red Orbit )

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:00:47 GMT

By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell SAN BERNARDINO - To ease the overcrowding of emergency rooms in the event of a global outbreak of influenza, the county wants to set up alternative-care sites for ill patients.

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Visualise Your First Step To Health (Medical News Today)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Want to go to the gym but never even set off? The best first step might be to close your eyes and imagine yourself on the journey. A new study, published today (4 August 2008) in the British Journal of Health Psychology, found that people who visualised themselves going through the actions involved in a specific health behaviour were then more likely to intend to carry out the behaviour.

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American Cancer Society Study Finds High Use Of Complementary Methods Among Cancer Survivors (Medical News Today)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT

A new study from researchers at the American Cancer Society finds many cancer patients use complementary and alternative methods, most often prayer, relaxation, supplements, meditation, and massage. Meanwhile, the use of other methods, such as biofeedback, homeopathy, and acupressure, are relatively uncommon.

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Homeopathy funding axed in trust's double u-turn (East Grinstead Courier)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Patients who prefer alternative treatments to conventional medicine will now have to go elsewhere because West Kent PCT has withdrawn its funding for homeopathy.

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Homeopathy funding axed (East Grinstead Courier)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Patients who prefer alternative treatments to conventional medicine will now have to go elsewhere because West Kent PCT has withdrawn its funding for homeopathy.

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40 per cent fall in homeopathic prescriptions as GPs shuns the alternative medicine (Daily Mail)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:32 GMT

GPs are turning their backs on homeopathy, with the number of prescriptions for the alternative medicine falling by almost half.

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£300k spent on water 'cures' (The Sun)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:48:00 GMT

Homeopathy in decline after warnings on 'unproven' remedies from top scientists

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Genocide or homeopathy? (Lounge of the Lab Lemming)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:40:00 GMT

Radovan Karadzic was captured yesterday, after more than a decade on the run. I heard on the radio this morning that while in hiding, he was a practitioner of alternative medicine. Usually I leave anti-crankery to other people, but I thought this was too good not to mention. Update: The denialism blog has background and photos.

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Acupuncture, Chiropractic And Electrotherapy - What's Old Is New Again For America's Pets (Medical News Today)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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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Herbs and Natural Supplements An Evidence Based Guide (full and free download)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:02:22 GMT

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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Naturopaths Support Tougher Regulation Of Complementary Medicine (Medical News Today)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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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What Is Holistic Healing And Why Do I need It? (WaterSANA)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:24:11 GMT

This is crossing over into territory that can make people with peculiar sensibilities become angry because this is the middle ground between the physical on one hand and the metaphysical on the other. It is combining them all and it...

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The New Aromatherapy: Essential Oils as Mainstream Medicine (ArticlePower.org)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:32:41 GMT

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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Variants Of Alternative Medicine And How They Can Benefit Health (Article Master)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:48:38 GMT

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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As goes Vermont... (denialism blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:48:40 GMT

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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