The News Review:
- Homeopathic practice finds niche among Hispanics
- Are you ready for a breakthrough healing retreat?
- Book Reveals Author’s Secrets to Conquering the Incurable
- More birth defects seen with fertility treatment
- Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine
- Non-white med students reject therapies associated with their culture
Homeopathic practice finds niche among Hispanics
Stamford Advocate, CT
After the visit, Robinson summed up the philosophy of naturopathic doctors. “We all believe the body has a natural ability to heal itself,” she said. As a practitioner of alternative medicine, Robinson said she is sometimes marginalized. Some insurance companies do not cover her work, and it can be difficult to connect her patients with low-cost access to specialists for X-rays, blood work, MRIs and other services, she said. Sometimes patients need treatments, such as surgery, that are out of her realm, she said. But Robinson’s philosophy of using herbs and natural cures is one that many people from Latin America are quick to embrace, said Ingrid Fallaque, Robinson’s translator and intermediary with the Hispanic community. Many Hispanics are familiar with natural remedies from their own countries and feel more safe using them than taking pills, said Fallaque, who is from Peru.
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Are you ready for a breakthrough healing retreat?
Philippine Star, Philippines
“I took exotic herbs, practiced yoga, prayed, meditated, and performed qi gong exercises daily. Most importantly, I unlocked the mysteries of quantum physics, which gave me hope and offered me the possibility for a definitive cure. The journey was long and intense, but in the end, the combination of the best of conventional and alternative medicine with the formula and theories of quantum science healed my broken heart,” declared Dr. Noah who returned to active practice six months after his illness. A law passed in 1996 allowing alternative medicine modalities to be covered by medical insurance was like wind beneath the wings of Dr. For the first time in the history of the state, conventional doctors were working under one roof with alternative and complementary medicine practitioners.
Book Reveals Author’s Secrets to Conquering the Incurable
EVLiving
“Nothing is impossible and medical doctors do a great disservice to patients by giving then a limiting prognosis,” states Cowen. “Even though the medical community might not have the answers, it doesn’t mean answers don’t exist. ” Cowen continued, “It is my goal to help make the world of alternative medicine less overwhelming and my book is a guide to put mind-body-spirit medicine into context. ”Endorsements:“Get Well illuminates the path to health and healing regardless of the diagnosis. Bravo, Sandy Cowen. ” –Christiane Northrup, M.
More birth defects seen with fertility treatment
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
Carolyn Givens, a reproductive endocrinologist with the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco. Patients are accepting of that because the alternative is not having a baby. ” She and other fertility specialists noted that the age of the women in the study undergoing fertility treatments was generally older than the age of women who needed no assistance. Women who have difficulty conceiving or carrying a fetus have a higher risk of pregnancy complications and a higher rate of birth defects – even if they don’t use artificial reproductive technology, said Dr. Lynn Westphal, an associate professor in the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “You don’t know if it’s from the technique itself,” she said.
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine
CNN
shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025 was predicted at last week’s American Medical Association annual meeting. In the survey, the foundation sent questionnaires to more than 150,000 doctors nationwide. Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they’d consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies. And if that many physicians stopped practicing, that could be devastating to the health care industry. "We couldn’t survive that," says Dr. Walker Ray, vice president of the Physicians Foundation.
Non-white med students reject therapies associated with their culture
EurekAlert (press release), DC
That is one finding from an international study that measures the attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). While seemingly counter-intuitive, white students view CAM more favorably than their non-white counterparts, the study authors say.