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- Urine therapy is satanic ‘”Akindipe natural healer
- New center for alternative medicine in Innsbruck; Austria
- New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
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- Complementary and alternative medicine 101 Thirty percent of …
- Research and Markets: 2008 Integrative Medicine and Dietary …
Urine therapy is satanic ‘”Akindipe natural healer
Daily Sun Nigeria
During the past months he said he was shocked and dismayed to find out that urine therapy has become the vogue for patients who came to his office with the ailments like cancer diabetics hepatitis measles kidney and heart problems. Such patients he said shamelessly told him that the only therapy they had been using was human urine either their own or that collected from others. Describing the prescription of urine-drinking as a satanic Akindipe who is the Registrar of the Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine of Nigeria said some people even quoted the Bible to support their resort to urine as a cure-all for diseases including those that modern orthodox medicine has no answer for. "These people will tell you that they were told that urine is medicinal …to their ailments and they must have visited numerous clinics of both traditional and orthodox medicines just like they must have consulted several churches several mosques chatted with priests imams pastors and babalawos all without solutions. So it is in urine that they find the solutions just because some satanic people say it is medicinal?" he queried. Insisting that no human being is supposed to take own urine he said that scientifically speaking the urine is the by-product of water taken by the person. "When you breath out you release carbon-dioxide which you don’t need and don’t consume.
New center for alternative medicine in Innsbruck; Austria
Pressrelations (Pressemitteilung) Germany
2008 | 11:29 PCGNew center for alternative medicine in Innsbruck; AustriaDr. Ulrike Lusser has opened an ordination for acupuncture and holistic medicine in Innsbruck Austria. The services include ear hand and other forms of acupuncture. Dr Lusser is a medical doctor working for the University Clinic of Innsbruck since 2005 and the Tyrolean Air Ambulance since 2007. The opening hours are daily as well as on week-ends. The ordination is located at the New Tivoli Center in Innsbruck.
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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.
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.
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.
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.