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Use of complementary and alternative medicine is rapidly increasing
Nursing Times, UK
Britons spend £130m a year on complementary treatments and it is estimated this will exceed more than £200m over the next four years according to The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health. The term complementary and alternative medicine refers to any therapy that is not provided by orthodox health professionals like doctors, nurses and dentists. However, some techniques, for example massage therapy, are now being included in nurses’ training. The Cochrane Collaboration defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health systems of a particular society or culture in a given historical period.
Naturopathic doctor popular among Hispanics
Newsday, NY
After the visit, Robinson summed up the philosophy ofnaturopathic doctors. “We all believe the body has a natural ability to healitself,” she said. As a practitioner of alternative medicine, Robinson said she issometimes marginalized. Some insurance companies do not cover her work, and it can bedifficult to connect her patients with low-cost access tospecialists for X-rays, blood work, MRIs and other services, shesaid. Sometimes patients need treatments, such as surgery, that areout of her realm, she said. But Robinson’s philosophy of using herbs and natural cures isone that many people from Latin America are quick to embrace, saidIngrid Fallaque, Robinson’s translator and intermediary with theHispanic community. Many Hispanics are familiar with naturalremedies from their own countries and feel more safe using themthan taking pills, said Fallaque, who is from Peru.
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Boston Globe, United States
, offers this advice: “Any time I hear terms like ‘fountain of youth’ for a product or intervention that is going to be the magic bullet to slow, or retard, or attenuate the aging process, I would suggest tremendous skepticism. “Blackman, previously a top researcher at the National Institutes of Health Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, said the aging process is complex, with no single explanation or approach for treating the diseases that come with it. The AARP Bulletin, the monthly magazine for the 40-million-member organization that caters to those 50 and older, refuses ads for products that promise benefits not backed by empirical research, said Susan Crowley, the magazine’s executive editor. “We encourage people to embrace a healthy lifestyle rather than antiaging products which can be expensive, harmful and not regulated,” Crowley said. The Internet operates under different rules. And that’s where T.
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The Connacht Sentinel, Ireland
Cyril Jennings has got the go-ahead from county planners to demolish 4 houses at Killora and replace them with a two-storey building. The new health centre will offer holistic, alternative and modern health care as well as a children’s activity centre within 200 metres of the main road through Craughwell. Email this page Daily Local News November 24th, 2008GERRY ADAMS TO ATTEND SINN F