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- New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
- Complementary and alternative medicine 101 Thirty percent of …
- Adopting an alternative: Stamford Hospital offers acupuncture …
- Crusader for Breakthrough Medicine Suzanne Somers Calls ONDAMED …
- Natural cures for everyday problems
- Herbs and Vitamin C Against Cancer Cells
- Patients thinking outside the Rx
New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
Buffalo News United States
For me and my patients drugs are not the only answer. And my patients are not alone in wanting a choice besides medication. Barack Obama should heed this complaint and appoint a surgeon general who takes alternative medicine seriously. The public is far ahead of medical experts and politicians on alternative medicine. A Harvard Medical School survey done 10 years ago found that more than 40 percent of Americans used some form of alternative medicine. It’s probably higher today. The study found that Americans spent as much out of pocket for alternative treatments as they did for conventional health care.
Complementary and alternative medicine 101 Thirty percent of …
AAP News (subscription)
Are you up-to-date?Sheryl CashCorrespondentPediatricians now have a roadmap to assist families with the growing use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The report was authored by the AAP Section on Complementary and Integrative Medicine which this year moved from provisional to full section status.
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Adopting an alternative: Stamford Hospital offers acupuncture …
Stamford Advocate CT
The study also found that most hospitals with programs in place offered them because of increasing patient demand. The next most popular reason hospitals cited was the clinical effectiveness of the treatment. Office of Health Care Access Commissioner Cristine Vogel said in Connecticut most hospitals have some type of complementary or alternative medicine service. Some offer the services from a single center as Stamford does while others offer services throughout the hospital Vogel said. Greenwich Hospital’s Center for Integrative Medicine opened last year and Norwalk Hospital offers similar services in various programs. The center is located on the first floor of Stamford Hospital’s Tully Health Center across from the cafe. The new facility’s minimalist decor hardwood floors and plush waiting area chairs seem slightly Eastern in origin though the art shows off local plants and landscapes.
Crusader for Breakthrough Medicine Suzanne Somers Calls ONDAMED …
PR Web (press release) WA
" And Suzanne Somers is not the only ONDAMED zealot. Stephen Sinatra famed cardiologist and alternative medicine advocate says "The vibrational frequencies that are determined by sophisticated equipment like ONDAMED is perhaps a search for real truth. This is the future of medicine. " On December 11 at A4M Dr. Sinatra will join Ondamed Inc. founder Rolf Binder along with renown biophysicist James L.
Natural cures for everyday problems
Fort Worth Star Telegram TX
Test-tube studies show that this North American plant works as a muscle relaxer to quickly relieve painful spasms. Ronald Hoffman medical director of the Hoffman Center in New York and author of Alternative Cures That Really Work; Ellen Kamhi co-author of Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Arthritis and The Natural Medicine Chest and clinical instructor at Stony Brook University Medical School; Dr. medical director of the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers and author of From Fatigued to Fantastic!; Eric Yarnell botanical medicine faculty member at Bastyr University.
Herbs and Vitamin C Against Cancer Cells
Cancer Monthly NC
Source:Rozanova N Zhang JZ Heck DE. Catalytic therapy of cancer with ascorbate and extracts of medicinal herbs. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. eCam December 26 2007.
Patients thinking outside the Rx
Albany Times Union NY
“Americans spend more than $40 billion annually on alternative and complementary medications according to the NIH. Herbal supplements vitamins chiropractic care and meditation are among the most popular therapies although prayer is at the top of the list. While two-thirds of Americans older than age 50 use alternative medicine most of them keep it to themselves according to a survey conducted by NIH’s Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the AARP. The survey found that patients didn’t tell their doctors about the alternative medicines they were using because the doctor never asked they didn’t know they should or they were embarrassed. “They were afraid their doctors were going to dismiss the use of (complementary and alternative medicines) so they didn’t bring it up” said Alyssa Cotler a public health adviser with the NIH. Cotler helped design the national “Time to Talk” campaign. The government created tool kits that give doctors advice on asking patients about it and the kits are dispensed at medical meetings.