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Tea maker Garden Life bets on natural products to maintain ...
Today's Zaman
People who cannot find cures for themselves or their loved ones for an illness within modern medicine often turn their attention to alternative medicine, ...

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Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie
Times Herald-Record
Q. Do you believe that alternative medicine should be used when dealing with serious, life-and-death illnesses, such as cancer? Why/why not? ...

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Tests show many supplements have quality problems
Daily News Transcript
Associated Press EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine ...

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Boston Globe

Universal Health Insurance And The Role of Integrative Medicine
eMaxHealth.com
... medicine model - that is, the cutting edge of integrative medicine that arose from the earlier movement complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). ...
Small Business and the Public OptionNew York Times
Entitlement Reform Is Necessary for Long-Term Fiscal StabilityHeritage.org
The Three Bears of the Public OptionWashington Post Blogs
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Mainstream physicians give alternatives a try, including ...
Mail Tribune
In Shnider's mind, it's not alternative medicine, but wellness. "No tradition has all the answers," said Martha Calihan, a board-certified family physician ...

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Alternative cures still in question
The Spokesman Review
All proved no better than dummy pills in big studies funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The lone exception: Ginger ...

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Red Yeast Rice Lowers Cholesterol: Study Backs Up Centuries of ...
Natural News.com
Red yeast rice, a bright reddish purple fermented rice cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus, has been used in Chinese medicine for more than a ...
Whatever works: Natural remedies and drugsNew Haven Register (subscription)

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ScienceBlogs

Musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and culture
ScienceBlogs
In other words, they are looking at alternative medicine vs. real medicine to see which is cheaper, not whether it actually works. Unsurprisingly, I have a ...

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Examiner.com

Medical fraud under the guise of alternative medicine
Examiner.com
Chaunsay Beckwith was the operator of an alternative medical clinic in Tucker, Georgia called International Alternative Medicine Inc., which was offering ...
Tucker woman gets jail time for health-care fraudBizjournals.com

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Examiner.com

Medicinal herbs to grow in Virginia
Examiner.com
For more on these herbs and their medicinal uses, you can visit the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's website. ...

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Examiner.com

'Alternative Medicine' clinic operator sentenced for health care fraud
Daily Citizen
... provided hyperbaric oxygen therapy to numerous patients in her clinic, International Alternative Medicine, Inc., located at 4450 Hugh Howell Road, ...
Medical fraud under the guise of alternative medicineExaminer.com
Tucker woman gets jail time for health-care fraudBizjournals.com

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Olive answer to heart attacks?
The Statesman
At the University of Queensland, Mr Poudyal was working on finding an alternative natural-based medicine to combat heart attacks as part of his studies, ...

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Quacks selling medicine to patients
Independent Online
... have reported hearing of medical professionals coaching patients to take vitamins or herbal remedies as an alternative to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.

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Examiner.com

Alternative medicine for creatures great and small
Examiner.com
Just as millions of Americans explore alternative medicine for themselves, pet owners are increasingly active in searching out natural solutions, ...

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Whatever works: Natural remedies and drugs
New Haven Register (subscription)
There is another camp that thinks that anything associated with complementary/alternative medicine is invariably nonsense. I am not among them, either. ...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING
Boston Globe
Scientists at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - it has a trove of information at www.nccam.nih.gov - declare that when it ...

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Many homeopathic remedies untested
Martinsburg Journal
The National Institutes of Health's alternative medicine center spent $3.8 million on homeopathic research from 2002 to 2007 but is now abandoning studies ...

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Many homeopathic remedies untested
Martinsburg Journal
The National Institutes of Health's alternative medicine center spent $3.8 million on homeopathic research from 2002 to 2007 but is now abandoning studies ...

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Alternative Medicine: A Modest Inquiry
The Seoul Times
Mostly, this term is used for the alternative medical knowledge beyond the western medicine. Homeopathy, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, ...

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Time for drugs to get back to earth
Calgary Herald
"We need to go back into the woods a little way," said Harlan Lahti, founder of Vancouver's Finlandia Pharmacy, which specializes in natural medicine. ...

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