Americans Turn to Complementary Alternative Medicine for Pain Relief

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- Americans Turn to Complementary Alternative Medicine for Pain Relief
- Chinese alternative medicine can work for pets too
- Alternative Health and Nutrition Interest Group Spearhead By Local
- Start the New Year Healthfully

Americans Turn to Complementary Alternative Medicine for Pain Relief
Voice of America 
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Chinese alternative medicine can work for pets too
Dallas Morning News TX 
ne entity mentioned was acupuncture. Acupuncture is one aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM and Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine or TCVM. TCM was developed more than 3000 years ago through observation of people and their surroundings. The observations and techniques were applied to animals and TCVM developed. TCVM and TCM are still being used successfully today in China. Sometimes they are used in conjunction with Western medicine and sometimes Chinese medicine is used alone when everything else has failed.

Alternative Health and Nutrition Interest Group Spearhead By Local
SitNews AK 
Registered Nurse Elise Burger is spearheading a monthly discussion group set to start in mid-January. Burger plans to provide information and support to encourage people to make healthy choices and take more responsibility for their health; "Especially" Burger says "with the high cost of health care preventative measures should and could play a huge role". The "Alternative Health and Nutrition Interest Group" will meet for the first time Thursday January 15 from 7-8:30 pm at Ketchikan General Hospital (specific venue to be announced). This is not a hospital-sponsored organization.
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Start the New Year Healthfully
Hawaii Reporter HI 
Terry Shintani Associate Professor of Medicine at UH’s medical school and author of "The Hawai?i Diet" and the "Eat More Weigh Less Cookbook". Shintani is also a trained healer in Native Hawaiian medicine. Specialists from the on-campus "Wellness Center" will discuss treatments in complementary and alternative medicine which are offered to the public by appointment at the Center. Those services include acupuncture massage therapy and ayuverdic (traditional Indian) medicine. Alternative medicine is increasingly popular with Americans including children according to a recent study. Residents of Hawai?i have a strong tradition of using alternative healing therapies.

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