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Month: April 2012
PA Tourism; alternative cancer therapies
For many, those treatments won't stop the pain and discomfort or will have side effects that present a new set of issues. Often, they'll opt for alternative therapy or complementary medicine. The alternatives include acupuncture, massage therapy, …
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Baylor Professor Receives Award for Complementary and Integrative Medicine …
This trial was honored by the society as the outstanding study in the field of complementary and alternative medicine during the past year. "Hot flashes are a very significant problem for many women at mid-life, and there is a great interest in …
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Six Medical Marijuana Superstores Planned for New Jersey
| Patients around the state are going to be relying on these alternative treatment centers to grow a high quality medicine, and weGrow will be here to assist these cultivators in the best growing practices for doing so.” Following the opening of the … See all stories on this topic » |
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KFC ordered to pay $8.3 million to Australian girl
Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap.
Weight Control
In Asia, I saw people eating one pea at a time with their chop sticks. They pick at their food. Sometimes, they eat a lot at a time, but not often, mostly on a special occasion. They drink a lot of tea, which is filling and not a lot of soft drinks, …
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Weight–loss surgery for children 'can change lives'
| By Philippa Roxby Health reporter, BBC News Bariatric surgery is often a last resort, helping patients lose a significant amount of weight when all other options have been exhausted. For children who are morbidly obese, weight–loss surgery is never an … See all stories on this topic » |
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Physicians turn to exercise prescriptions to prevent and treat chronic condition
This potent remedy, which can reduce blood pressure, cholesterol and the risk of heart attack, is good old-fashioned exercise. A movement is emerging among physicians, researchers and public-health experts who want the medical system to harness its …
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Dogs may get exercise area at Palo Alto's El Camino Park
By Jason Green This is a view of a proposed dog exercise area at El Camino Park in Palo Alto, pictured on Thursday, April 26, 2012. In an effort to make the city more dog-friendly, Palo Alto council members voted this to include a dog park in a $2.7 …
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How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain – Association for …
The New York Times: The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter.
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(U//FOUO) FEMA National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 11) Final After …
On Monday, May 16, 2011, thousands of players across the United States received notification of a simulated catastrophic earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), officially kicking off the National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 11) …
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