Year: 2018
Jig's up for 'doc' who practised for decade without degree
I did not bother to register with the medical council because I was an iron scrap dealer. "We wrote to the state medical council and Annamalai University. Directorate of Medical Services (DMS) officials say alternative medicine and the board are illegal. CHENNAI: He has been practising medicine for …
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Democrats' Surrender On Torture Is Nearly Complete
FBI Official Trump Loathes May Be Fired For Disclosing Info That Helped Trump's Campaign
Democrats dissect Lamb's win with an eye to November's races
Is exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation effective?
Conclusions and implications of key findings Our analysis indicates conclusively that the current approach to exercise-based CR has no effect on all-cause mortality or cardiovascular mortality, when compared with a no-exercise control. There may be a small reduction in hospital admissions following …
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Pro Football Players Testify to CranioSacral Therapy's Ability to Address Concussion and CTE
One complementary health intervention that shows promise in the addressing of post-concussion symptoms is CranioSacral Therapy (CST). … Brain Injury, and American Football: Time for a Convergence,” by Eric Leskowitz, MD, published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.) …
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Lose weight and keep it off by following basic economic theories, claim experts
In The Economists' Diet, Payne and Barnett reveal how simple economic practices such as budgeting and equilibrium helped them shed the pounds and stop attributing weight gain to “slow metabolisms” and “heavy bones”. “Evidence conclusively proves that the richer a country is, the higher the rates of …
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Seamless ways to fit exercise into your schedule this spring
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, only 21 percent of adults in the U.S. are meeting the weekly guidelines for exercise. Not only are many people too busy to exercise, but the number is probably even lower in the winter months, when the weather is colder and people fall ill …
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Homeopathy Paper on Pus Retracted After Alleged 'Fake Doctor' Authors Got Arrested
The paper in question – which has now been retracted from a controversial science journal focussed on 'evidence-based' alternative medicine – concerns the niche field of treatment known as 'Psorinum Therapy'. According to the researchers, psorinum is the alcoholic extract of "scabies, slough, and …
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Woman, 28, who freaked out about her weight when she saw a photo of herself on Facebook …
But after trying 'every diet known to man', including soup diets, celebrity eating plans, frozen meal delivery and crash diets, nothing stuck for longer than a few weeks – and she'd only lost a few kilos. 'After an amazing holiday to America in April last year I returned home to find I'd gained all the weight I …
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A dietitian weighs in on the Ketogenic diet for weight loss
Things are always changing in the realm of health and wellness, but fad diets and marketed “quick fixes” for weight loss seem to be here to stay. A fairly new diet that has made national headlines lately is the ketogenic diet – a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that shifts metabolism from carbohydrates to fat.
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