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Supplementing your knowledge about weight-loss products
Stamford Times, CT
The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine says there "have been reports of fainting, heart attack and stroke in healthy people after taking bitter orange supplements alone or combined with caffeine. ...

Controversial BC psychiatrist `gave hope' to thousands
Canada.com, Canada
The team eventually developed the method of treating schizophrenia with large doses of niacin and Vitamin C. Two years ago, Hoffer shared the $250000 Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine for what the judges said was ...

Patients seeking solutions outside the mainstream
LimaOhio.com, OH
A study in 2007 by the US Department of Health and Human Services found 38 percent of adult Americans and 12 percent of American children use complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM for short. Dr. Jonathan Laux, of Lima, understands patients' ...

Turning towards homeopathy to treat cancer
The News International, Pakistan
Alam and Ahmed conducted the clinical studies at Dr Nadir Homeopathic Hospital, Super Highway, Hussaini Institute of Alternative Medicine, Old Hussaini Blood Blank opposite Nishtar Park, and Sindh Medical Centre, Hilal-e-Ahmer, Clifton, Karachi. ...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
WSOCtv.com, NC
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the use of therapies that are outside the practice of conventional medicine. Complementary refers to therapies that are used in conjunction with traditional medical treatments. Alternative therapies are ...

The Gulfshore's Top Doctors 2009
Gulfshore Life, FL
She's about holistic medicine, de-stressing. She's just an amazing doctor.” Southmayd became interested in alternative medicine and different approaches to healthcare while in Massachusetts. She has studied approaches to illness and wellness that focus ...

Alternative Cures
Mania, CA
Alternative Medicine can also be referred to as unconventional medicine because it is medicine in a way that a lot of people are not used to. It is medicine that works for a lot of folks though, and it could be medicine that works for you if you open ...

Nature.com (subscription)

Straight talk with...Harvey Fineberg
Nature.com (subscription), UK
In 2005, an institute report on complementary and alternative medicine generated a bit of controversy because it called on Congress to create incentives for research on the efficacy of certain practices such as the use of dietary supplements. ...

BOI approves export of ayurvedic medicines
Lanka Times, Sri Lanka
Evolving throughout history, ayurveda remains an influential system of medicine in South Asia. Ayurveda is considered to be a form of complementary and alternative medicine within the western world having a growing interest. ...

Alternative Health Journal

Medical Public Relations
Alternative Health Journal, California
America has really yet to embrace alternative medicine and holistic health. Though the countless people who have been saved from surgery, pain, and even death by the graces of alternative treatments tell everyone they know about these amazing remedies, ...

Traditional Medicinals' Breathe Easy Herbal Tea Improves Sinus Health
Natural Products Marketplace, Arizona
Full results from the study were published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (January 2009, Vol. 15, No. 1). This latest study is the fourth clinical study investigating the effects of a Traditional Medicinals herbal tea. ...

Bundaberg NewsMail

Naturopaths left off new scheme | Lifestyle
Bundaberg NewsMail, Australia
“It is not alternative medicine, it is part of mainstream health care,” Mrs Harris said. “Each has a role to play, they are complementary to each other.” Queensland homeopaths are currently accredited through an advanced diploma at a ...

Alternative Health Journal

Multiple Sclerosis
Alternative Health Journal, California
Modern medicine lists MS as a disease without a cure. Many Alternative Medicine or Naturopathic doctors view all diseases, including MS, as the body struggling to correct some problem related to the physical, emotional or mental states of the patient. ...

What are parents' rights regarding a child's medical treatment?
CNN
Courts have also sided with families in life-or-death situations when the parents find a licensed physician willing to administer the alternative medicine they're seeking. This was the case with the Maxins, who found a doctor specializing in holistic ...

Alternative Health Journal

Alternative Medicine
Alternative Health Journal, California
By Dan Sevigny, Community Contributor -- Published: May 27, 2009 Alternative Medicine is a science that combines the knowledge and power of modern medicine alongside the wisdom of ancient healing. For a person who is living with a chronic or ...

ABC News

Web site to raise money for Minn. cancer patient
The Associated Press
A doctor's report released in court says the hospital's goal "will be to include alternative therapies in which the family is interested, as long as there is not data to suggest that a particular danger exists with any alternative medicine. ...
Alt. Medicine Will Be Part Of Hauser's Treatment WCCO
Daniel Hauser will get medicine, support at Children's Hospital KARE
Nemenhah Band in spotlight Columbia Daily Tribune
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James S. Gordon, MD, Mind-Body Medicine Pioneer, to Present Public ...
Business Wire (press release), CA
He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Web site to raise money for Minnesota cancer patient who fled with ...
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
The doctor's report also says the hospital's goal "will be to include alternative therapies in which the family is interested, as long as there is not data to suggest that a particular danger exists with any alternative medicine. ...
Mother and 13-year-old medicine man still fleeing chemo; court ... Examiner.com
Nemenhah Band in spotlight Columbia Daily Tribune
Daniel Hauser returned to parents' custody after they promise to ... Pioneer Press
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Resources For Seniors Diagnosed With Cancer
Western Queens Gazette, NY
Research Alternative Medicine If your mother is interested in learning more about herbs, supplements and other alternative approaches to fighting cancer, go to the National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine (www.nccam.nih.gov). ...

Steven Miles: Of alternative healing and claims of truth
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
The difference between mainstream and naturopathic medicine is the difference between rigorous tests and simple testimonials. By STEVEN MILES It was a young boy with meningitis who led me to build a traditional medicine center. Meningitis is a terrible ...