Monthly Archives: February 2010

Homeopathy: Is it a waste of NHS money? – The Sun


Homeopathy: Is it a waste of NHS money?
The Sun
The alternative medicine uses highly diluted substances said to stimulate the body's healing mechanisms. But a committee of MPs branded the remedies useless ...
Homeopathy foolishness gets the treatment it deservesThought Leader

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Comprehensive Conference On Integrative Medicine – I-Newswire.com (press release)


Comprehensive Conference On Integrative Medicine
I-Newswire.com (press release)
... knowledge and diagnostic procedures, business acumen as they relate to complementary and alternative medicine; to support integrative medicine research; ...

Palm Oil: Why is it Wrapped in Such Controversy? – The Healthier Life


Palm Oil: Why is it Wrapped in Such Controversy?
The Healthier Life
In just 5 minutes every day, it will tell you what's working, what isn't – and what may harm you in both orthodox and alternative medicine.

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Energy Class Focuses On Restoring Harmony – Dade County Sentinel


Energy Class Focuses On Restoring Harmony
Dade County Sentinel
The story of how Sue Gridley, a conventionally trained psychologist, came to be teaching an alternative medicine course shows that life has some interesting ...

Debate is crucial for science to develop – This is London


Telegraph.co.uk

Debate is crucial for science to develop
This is London
If alternative medicine is going to be promoted as a component of conventional healthcare, which means recommending treatments that are known to cause ...
Simon Singh in court to appeal ruling over Guardian articleThe Guardian
Test medicine in the lab, not in the courtTimes Online

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NCBTMB to Participate at 2010 Integrative Healthcare Symposium – Massage Magazine


NCBTMB to Participate at 2010 Integrative Healthcare Symposium
Massage Magazine
In fact, a 2008 National Center for Health Statistics report found that 38 percent of adults used one or more complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) ...

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Alternative Medicine Remains Popular, Legal, and Ineffective (or Worse) – DailyFinance


Alternative Medicine Remains Popular, Legal, and Ineffective (or Worse)
DailyFinance
Disturbing news about alternative medicine has been in the air lately. Just the other day, ...

Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurates Arogya Fair at Bhubaneswar – Orissadiary.com


Orissadiary.com

Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurates Arogya Fair at Bhubaneswar
Orissadiary.com
Report by Smaranika Nanda, Bhubaneswar: Showcasing different therapies encompassed in the gamut of alternative medicine, the Arogya Fair, jointly organised ...

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Simon Singh in court to appeal ruling over Guardian article – The Guardian


The Lawyer

Simon Singh in court to appeal ruling over Guardian article
The Guardian
Alternative Medicine on Trial and who has presented science programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, was sued by the BCA over a Guardian article in April 2008. ...
Test medicine in the lab, not in the courtTimes Online

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Homeopathic medicine – an oxymoron? – OnMedica


Homeopathic medicine - an oxymoron?
OnMedica
Demand for complementary and alternative medicine is high despite limited evidence and primary care trusts are, quite rightly, withdrawing funding from ...

Reiki spells relief – The Spokesman Review


Reiki spells relief
The Spokesman Review
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the federal government's lead agency for scientific research on nonconventional ...

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Homeopathy: The Jig is Up – CHQR (blog)


Channel 4 News

Homeopathy: The Jig is Up
CHQR (blog)
There should be no distinction between "conventional" medicine and "alternative" medicine - either something works (which makes it medicine), or it doesn't ...
NHS should stop funding homeopathy, say MPsTimes Online
UK 'must stop funding homeopathy', say politiciansNature.com (subscription) (blog)
Here, here! UK panel recommends against public funding of homeopathyMinnPost.com (blog)
Independent -Irish Times -The Guardian
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Herbalist is part of curriculum for class – The Free Lance-Star


Herbalist is part of curriculum for class
The Free Lance-Star
"I'm excited about the fact that kids are educated on alternative medicine because healthcare is terrible," she said. "We've got to let nature be our HMO. ...

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Portsmouth man blows up alternative medicine – UNH The New Hampshire (subscription)


Portsmouth man blows up alternative medicine
UNH The New Hampshire (subscription)
Chinese medicine, shamanism, acupuncture, Reiki, and massage therapy. When Carringer opened Didgetherapy.com in Portsmouth in 2004, he learned just how ...

Herbal pill destroys womans health – Health24.com


Herbal pill destroys womans health
Health24.com
The Department of Health said it received more than 5000 responses after launching a consultation last year on whether practitioners of alternative medicine ...

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Homeopathic remedies based on ‘hair of the dog’ – Danbury News Times


Homeopathic remedies based on 'hair of the dog'
Danbury News Times
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), "Most homeopathic remedies are so dilute that no molecules of the ...

Survey: More seniors using marijuana – KDRV


KDRV

Survey: More seniors using marijuana
KDRV
Dr. Greg Gomez at Southern Oregon Alternative Medicine says about 75 percent of his patients are 50-years or older. He says the most common reason for ...

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John Walsh: How can anyone be allergic to lettuce? It’s 90 per cent water isn … – Independent


John Walsh: How can anyone be allergic to lettuce? It's 90 per cent water isn ...
Independent
I'm not big on alternative medicine but, from time to time, I've been forced to try it. Once I suffered from a frozen shoulder that no osteopathy could make ...

Calories in Snickers, Starburst, other candy overshadow any health benefits – Fashion


Calories in Snickers, Starburst, other candy overshadow any health benefits
Fashion
Do research on a reputable nutrition site like the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, ...

Veria Enters into Agreement with New Living Magazine – PR Web (press release)


Veria Enters into Agreement with New Living Magazine
PR Web (press release)
... emotional and relationship health, healthy recipes, book and product reviews, empowering celebrity interviews and other alternative medicine topics. ...

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