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- The Touch That Doesn’t Heal
- Physical therapy effective in treating back and neck pain
- Natural alternatives lack scientific validation
- klahoma doctors draw from traditional not-so-traditional …
- Genetic Diseases More Complicated: Mechanism Underlying …
- More than 10% of kids use alternative treatments
The Touch That Doesn’t Heal
Wall Street Journal
‘ It’s more ‘People are spending a fortune on this stuff! We could do this plus our regular stuff and bill ‘em for all of it!’”Fees for CAM services are increasingly passed on to insurance through a creative — some might say fraudulent — interpretation of the Current Procedural Terminology codes that govern reimbursement for authorized services. (Various tutorials some online guide practitioners through the reimbursement maze. ) Such creativity may soon be unnecessary if the alternative medicine proponents have their way. For example ABC Coding Solutions a medical-software company has been promulgating a set of 4000 treatment codes that cover “nearly every healing modality practiced by alternative healthcare providers” to quote one report. If such codes are fully absorbed by the health-care industry CAM will have been mainstreamed — while bypassing all the customary peer review controlled studies and other hallmarks of sound medicine. Not by coincidence is CAM most avidly touted by a loose alliance of self-help gurus (Andrew Weil Deepak Chopra et al. ) and veteran hucksters like erstwhile infomercial king Kevin Trudeau.
Physical therapy effective in treating back and neck pain
Entertainment and Showbiz! India
entertainmentandshowbiz. Results of the 2007 survey of more than 32000 Americans were released December 11 by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. And now the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging patients with musculoskeletal pain to consider treatment by a physical therapist in light of new findings. In a recently published study it was shown that when patients with neck pain received up to six treatments of manual physical therapy and exercise they not only experienced pain relief but were also less likely to seek additional medical care up to one year following treatment. “This study demonstrating the efficacy of physical therapy for a condition as widespread as neck pain is particularly relevant in today’s challenging economic environment. The Kaiser Foundation for instance recently found that more than half of all Americans are not taking prescribed medication and postponing needed medical care in an effort to save money.
Natural alternatives lack scientific validation
Indianapolis Star United States
And about a teaspoon of dark honey a day can act as a cough suppressant and powerful antimicrobial agent says Dr. Mark Moyad director of preventive and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Naturopathic medicine an alternative medical approach that focuses on the body’s innate ability to heal takes a somewhat different approach when it comes to treating chronic sinus infections. Based on a study that found chronic sinus infections are caused by yeast not bacteria naturopathic physicians do not recommend antibiotics as treatment says Dr. Carol Rossetti founder of the Noblesville-based practice Wellness by Nature. “Antibiotics will kill off good and bad bacteria and leave a place for yeast to grow bigger and bigger” she says. She recommends a product called Silver Shield with Aqua Sol which can be taken as a nasal spray or by mouth.
klahoma doctors draw from traditional not-so-traditional …
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Murali Krishna executive director of Integris Mental Health answers for some ailments can be traced back to how we interact with the world around us. ?I don?t like the word ?alternative? medicine because we are not alternative? Krishna says. My field is mainstream medicine because you have the mind and body from birth. It?s really rediscovering the healing potential you have hidden within you. ? Krishna reports that two out of three Americans don?t get sleep.
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Genetic Diseases More Complicated: Mechanism Underlying …
Science Daily (press release)
26 2008) — An international research team led by Tim Nilsen Ph. a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine’s Center for RNA Molecular Biology has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing the process by which single genes produce different proteins in different situations. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of genetic diseases that are caused by mutations in the genetic code that in turn create mistakes in alternative splicing may be considerably more complicated than biomedical researchers have previously assumed. See also: Health & MedicineGenesHuman BiologyMind & BrainHuntington’s DiseaseCaregivingPlants & AnimalsLife SciencesBiochemistry Research Reference.
More than 10% of kids use alternative treatments
USA Today
Recent research however has given doctors more information about which therapies work and which don’t says Kathi Kemper a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine who was not involved in the new report. Alternative medicine is used in place of conventional care while complementary medicine is used alongside it she says. Kids are five times as likely to try unconventional therapies if their parents also use them according to the survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIH which included 23393 adults and 9417 children. About 38% of adults have used complementary and alternative medicine in the past year the study shows. Children used these therapies most often for back or neck pain colds anxiety or stress other muscle and skeletal problems and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder the study shows. Kids are more likely to use complementary and alternative therapies if they see the doctor a lot and if they have ongoing medical problems the report shows.