A study published a couple of months ago in the BMJ  made headlines for claiming that medical errors are the third leading cause of death.  As expected, the reactions were swift and polarized.
For some, the study confirmed that the self-serving healthcare system is utterly careless about the welfare of patients.  For others, the claim was complete hogwash, based on faulty methodology designed to justify further regulatory oversight.
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​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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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.
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