 A successful Integrative Medicine practice requires a successful systematic practice. Any system requires principles, practices and procedures to deliver optimal outcomes.An efficient system will reduce clinical errors, but this requires the Integrative Medicine practitioners to have the relevant skills, knowledge to implementing a risk management strategy.
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 A National Prescribing Survey (NPS) survey revealed that:
See more  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; Read More:  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?
Read more  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.
Read more  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.
Read more  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.
Read more  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:
 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. Read more  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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