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Integrative Medicine MODEL

4/20/2019

Contemporary terminology and ‘rebranding’ due to niche marketing have added to the confusion regarding what is meant by Integrative Medicine. Various terminology such as integrative healthcare, anti-ageing medicine and functional medicine have been used under the Integrative Medicine umbrella.
‘Strategic Medicine without Barriers’
The three most popular Integrative Medicines centre models of Integrative Medicine include;
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THE FISH OIL SUPPLEMENT CONTROVERSY

8/3/2018

A recent meta-analysis trial revealed that fish-oil supplements as have little effect in preventing heart attacks, strokes, or cardiovascular-related death in the more than 77,000 high-cardiac-risk individuals who participated in 10 large clinical trials. This goes against typical natural medicine treatments. CAM industry. So do fish oil supplements have any biological effect.effect?
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Why Governments Need to Help Families Make Fresh Food More Affordable

8/29/2017

Remarkably, the survey also found that, although healthy diets cost 15 percent less than current ‘unhealthy’ diets and people from low-income groups still need to spend around a third of their disposable income to eat a healthy diet. The Australian government is considering adding GST to fresh foods like vegetables, but this would be fool hardy as it will make healthy food unaffordable for lower socio-economic families.
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Dangers of Soft Plastic Toys

7/30/2017

As parents, we are often mindful of the dangers that cheap plastic toys pose to our kids. Oftentimes, infants tend to put toys in their mouths and chew on them. As they grow into kindy kids, they love the brand new shiny toys purchased from the local toy stores or online. The toy industry is a massive industry with over $20 billon US dollars in annual sales. However, many of these toys have phthalates in them and long-term exposure is a concern for parents.
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CLINICAL TRIAL SHOWS THAT ‘INDIAN GINSENG’ RELIEVES OSTEO-ARTHRITIS

7/11/2017

In a small but well-controlled study by Ramakanth et al in 2016, sixty patients aged between 40 and 70 years (male and female) with knee joint pain and discomfort were randomised in a double-blind manner. Patients who discontinued all current analgesic therapy, including NSAIDs, over the counter pain medications and topical analgesics for 7–10 days prior to the start of the study were randomised into the study. They were given Ashwagandha extract made from leaves and roots at doses of 250 mg, 125 mg and placebo all given twice daily for a period of 12-weeks.

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Time to Focus on the Integrative Medicine Healthcare System

1/28/2017

It is becoming more obvious that the current healthcare system in high-income countries is not working and the cost of healthcare continues to increase. This viewpoint has been validated by a recent landmark report commissioned by The Lancet journal and conducted by 27 international specialists revealed:

57% of patients in China use inappropriate antibiotics
16 to 70% inappropriate hysterectomies were conducted in the United States
20% inappropriate hysterectomies were conducted in the Taiwan
13% inappropriate hysterectomies were conducted in the Switzerland
26% inappropriate total knee replacement rates occurred in Spain
34% inappropriate total knee replacement rates occurred in the United States

Research Study Proves That Vacations Improve Health but Yoga and Meditation Holiday Retreat is Better!!!

12/26/2016

We know we should take at least a 2-week uninterrupted vacation every year. However, in today’s world, many of us feel that taking 2-week vacation will increase our workload in our daily jobs. This eventually results in us feeling even more exhausted and more frustrated with life.
A Complementary and Alternative Medicine study by Brooks et al in 2000 showed that men who take frequent annual vacations were 21 percent less likely to die from any cause and were 32 percent less likely to die from heart disease.Furthermore, the longest-running cardiovascular study known as the Framingham Heart Study revealed that men who avoided taking a vacation for several years were 30 percent more likely to have heart attacks compared to men who did not take time off.
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Research Study Shows that NEEM may be Useful in Treating Prostrate Cancer

12/3/2016

The active compound in neem is nimbolide which is a bioactive terpenoid. Recent scientific studies now show that nimbolidemay be a potential Complementary and Alternative Medicine remedy for shrinking prostrate tumours. A recent animal study has shown that oral administration of nimbolide suppressed cell invasion ....
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medical insurance companies

10/17/2016

Physicians are expected to be hostile to insurance companies. Indeed, a prior Whistleblower post directed arrows in their direction. They are an easy target, often vilified for their greed and perceived indifference toward those they insure. Ask most of us if we think insurance companies favor profits over patients, and most of us will respond that profits prevail.
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Why can’t more doctors apologize for mistakes?

9/13/2016

A recent JAMA article about disclosing medical error described a hypothetical situation involving a dermatologist who, after completing skin biopsies on two patients, discovered that the instruments had not been sterilized. He wondered if he should tell the patients and what he should say.
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