Category: Heart Disease
Military Doctors Finding Success In Alternative Medicine
For the 47000 troops who've been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of the new options include less tried and true methods, like massage and chiropractic treatments. The military hopes to win over skeptics, many of them in uniform.
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Treatment Advances Improve the Odds for Heart Failure Patients (HealthDay)
Heart Attack at the ‘Heart Attack Grill’ Is Poetic Justice (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Heart attack at the Heart Attack Grill? Sounds like a dime novel. It’s not fiction, though. A man went into coronary arrest eating at a Las Vegas joint called the Heart Attack Grill, says CBS News.
"Bad" cholesterol not the whole story in stroke? (Reuters)
Reuters – While “bad” LDL cholesterol is infamous for its link to heart disease, some lesser known measures of blood fat may be more important in stroke risk, a new study suggests.
Integrative Medicine Use Up, but Outcomes Still Uncertain
Dr. Gorski referred to a lot of complementary and alternative medicine as "elaborate placebo, and we all know that placebo effects are strengthened when there is belief and trust in the practitioner, and that's certainly what a lot of this seems to …
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Alternative available to contrast dyes for some medical scans
Patients who had signs of thyroid disease were between two and three times as likely to have had a scan using iodide as a comparison group of people without thyroid problems, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Alternative Medicine in Kaleidoscope Wellness – BuzzTown.com
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Law on medical marijuana leaves Langley in a fog
Lucas Jushinski has been in talks to lease space on Second Street, behind Living Green and All Washed-Up Laundromat, as a location for his nonprofit, Island Alternative Medicine. The business would provide medical marijuana to patients who are legally …
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Lactose Intolerance: A Diagnostic Fad
| While this is rarely true of diagnoses issued by traditional healthcare practitioners, health-related Internet sites (particularly those promoting alternative medicine) and some practitioners of alternative medicine may be susceptible to these … See all stories on this topic » |
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BG Medical Technologies Announces Corporate Insight Website
On February 22, 2012 9:30 AM ET, BG Medical will illustrate its ongoing focus to alternative medicine solutions, cannabis technologies, and its inspiring corporate vision for 2015. Valuable information pertaining to shareholders, prospective investors, …
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The Swiss Government's Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine
The Swiss government's inquiry into homeopathy and complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments resulted from the high demand and widespread use of alternatives to conventional medicine in Switzerland, not only from consumers but from physicians as …
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