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- Drug Combo for Hypertension May Be Safer Than Recommended Alternative
- Research and Markets: 2008 Integrative Medicine and Dietary …
- New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
- Complementary and alternative medicine 101 Thirty percent of …
- Adopting an alternative: Stamford Hospital offers acupuncture …
- New Data Provide Comprehensive Understanding of Americans’ Use of …
- Crusader for Breakthrough Medicine Suzanne Somers Calls ONDAMED …
Drug Combo for Hypertension May Be Safer Than Recommended Alternative
New York Times United States
The findings raise questions about treatment guidelines developed by the Joint National Committee on Prevention Detection Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure the researchers said. The guidelines recommend starting treatment for high blood pressure with a single pill preferably a diuretic and then adding other drugs if necessary. (Many patients cannot control their blood pressure with just one medicine. )“The important message is that the government recommends a drug that provides 20 percent less benefit than we found” in an alternate therapy said Dr. Kenneth Jamerson lead author of the study and a professor of internal medicine at.
Research and Markets: 2008 Integrative Medicine and Dietary …
MarketWatch
researchandmarkets. In this 32-page issue we offer a breakdown of 2007 U. Complementary and Alternative Medicine sales data and provides a detailed analysis of new integrative medicine on the market today. Features inside this title: Dietary supplements stand to benefit as consumers practitioners focus on preventing disease before it takes hold Facing pressure from students and patients universities are incorporating integrative therapies into the curriculum for tomorrow’s doctors We chat with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s new director Research into the cost effectiveness of complementary therapies is crucial to improving coverage experts say Q&A with the medical director and founder of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine CAM use in general is widespread and growing in U.
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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.
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.
New Data Provide Comprehensive Understanding of Americans’ Use of …
PR-USA.net (press release) Bulgaria
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hold a telephone briefing to discuss the findings of the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Why:The 2007 NHIS provides data on who is using CAM what they are using and why people are turning to CAM among other related topics. It marks the first time questions were included on children’s use of CAM as well as the first available trending data on CAM use in adults compared to the 2002 NHIS data on CAM use. When:December 10 2008 11:00 a.
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.