Founder of the ideal medical care movement Pamela Wible shares why, in order to heal patients, physicians must first heal their profession – and what can happen if they don’t.
 Researchers at the University of Texas in the US have shown that exercise can help smokers ‘kick the habit’. Moreover, the publication reported that exercise can be of value for helping those smokers who have the additional issue of high anxiety sensitivity e.g. racing heart, sweating, dizziness etc. The complementary medicine research study published in Psychosomatic Medicine stated that between 20 to 33 percent of smokers have high-anxiety sensitivity.
Read more  In the US there is a growing movement in the provision of healthcare services from the traditional fee-for-service to fee-for-performance healthcare model of primary healthcare delivery. A typical example could be a patient with cardiovascular problems having a conventional healthcare team delivering treatment and monitoring the health.
Read more  Researchers from the Food for Health Science Centre at Lund University in Sweden have shown that barley is beneficial in improving metabolism for up to 14-hours. The researchers carried out the study on 20 healthy, middle-aged participants. The ‘treatment group’ ate barley kernel bread at breakfast, lunch and dinner for 3 days whilst the control group ate
white wheat bread during the same 3-day period. Read more  Recent research published in in the journal Developmental Cell has demonstrated the presence of special proteins located in the small vessels of the brain is likely to influence the risk of stroke in mice.
Peter Carlsson along with his research team has investigated the development of the blood brain barrier and what makes the capillaries in the brain different from other vessels in other organs. Read more  With the growing incidence of antibiotic resistance infections, there is a need to consider non-antibiotic antimicrobials agents as alternatives. An antimicrobial is any substance of natural, semi-synthetic or synthetic origin that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms but causes little or no damage to the host. All antibiotics are antimicrobials, but not all antimicrobials are antibiotics. Many Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies such as Naturopathy, Ayurveda and other Traditional Medicine systems, advocate the use of honey in treatment of bacterial associated diseases.
Read more  Some medical schools, including those at Harvard, Georgetown and Emory universities, have begun to integrate mindfulness and meditation into their curriculum. The Army has a course in mindfulness-based mind fitness training. Public schools in San Francisco are encouraging mindfulness under a program called Quiet Time.” Even the top doctor in the United States, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, practices meditation daily.
Read Dr Manoj Jain’s enthralling article  A complementary medicine research study published in American Journal of Health Promotion has shown that sleeping less than 7-hours per day may contribute to obesity. The research revealed that reduced sleep increases the consumption of sweetened beverages, sugar-filled drinks and carbonated drinks, all of which contribute to weight gain.
Read more  Urinary tract infections (UTIs) burden the healthcare system with more than $2 billion in treatment costs each year.
Cranberry extract is a traditional medicine remedy that been used in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for the treatment of UTI’s. Now researchers have found that it can be a valuable Integrative Medicine resource for babies suffering from UTI’s. Read more  Meditation for all is essential for god health, With the continued stress loads on physicians, it is more important than ever that MD's take up some form of meditation. Meditation has been now scientifically validated to show improvements in anxiety, depression and other stress related disorders.
Read the article by Starla Fitch MD who is an physician that has written a wonderful book for doctors called 'Remedy for Burnout'. Please read of her article, How to Create a Meditation Habit That You’ll Actually Stick With. Read more |
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