Hello, ksmpta-ga!
Since it is impossible to read most of these articles without
subscribing, I have picked out the most recent and most promising in
terms of providing a positive light on alternative remedies and
lifestyle. I am sure there are many more out there, but it would take
more time to do a thorough search of the major news publications.
I hope these give you a start!
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Newsweek
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(From the www.newsweek.com archives)
February 26, 2001 Newsweek
Kinder, Gentler Clinics
Susannah Meadows
You're making an appointment at the Continuum Center for Health and
Healing at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center, and the receptionist
asks if you have a qi stagnation. Hmmm, you hadn't thought of that.
But you decide on an M.D., instead of an acupuncturist, for the
three-month-old pain in your coccyx. She says the hour will cost $350,
and--wow!-- "you can discuss everything that bothers you with [the
doctor]."Though it's hardly a traditional way to
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March 8, 1993 Newsweek
Helping Docs Mind the Body
SHARON BEGLEY with DEBRA ROSENBERG in Boston
At the University of Louisville, medical students dance, play-act,
joke and meditate their stress away. At Georgetown medical school, an
instructor suggests a multiple-sclerosis patient take up dance to
relieve the anxiety exacerbating his disease. At Harvard, med students
learn to decrease the pain of a patient's breast biopsy through yoga
and breathing exercises, and to lower blood pressure in a heart
patient by teaching her to meditate.This is medical school? Well, yes
and no. Last
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December 2, 2002 Newsweek
From the Editor
Mark Whitaker
You probably don't think of Harvard Medical School as a place you'd go
to study acupuncture, herbal remedies and massage. But if you visit
Boston these days, that's what you'll find: a faculty rigorously
investigating the field now known as Complementary and Alternative
Medicine. There's passion behind all the activity--in particular that
of Dr. David Eisenberg, a CAM specialist who was the first U.S.
medical student to study in China more than two decades ago. But
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December 2, 2002 Newsweek
Listen to Me, Doc
Barbie Nadeau
At first glance, Dr. Lucilla Ricottini's office seems just about
normal for a pediatrician in Rome. The colors are muted, the lights
are fluorescent and kiddie toys litter the waiting room. But it
doesn't take long to realize that Ricottini isn't your typical doctor.
She can spend hours consulting with a single patient. And she chooses
carefully from an arsenal of ancient remedies, including beetle
secretions and the fresh venom of a bushmaster snake. Is it voodoo
medicine?
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December 2, 2002 Newsweek
Now,'Integrative Care
Geoffrey Cowley
With Anne Underwood and Brian Braiker
Carol green was busy filling out medical-school applications several
years ago when she had an epiphany. She could devote herself to a
single healing tradition, she realized, or she could take a chance on
something more inclusive. "I was interested in integrating Eastern and
Western philosophies and finding a common language." So Green tossed
her med-school applications and pursued a degree in traditional
Chinese medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture. Today she
has a busy
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December 2, 2002 Newsweek
Easing the Treatment
Wendy Weiger, M.D., Ph.D., and David Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical
School
Cancer "cures" abound on the Internet. Unfortunately, few of them are
backed by credible evidence. Choosing an untested alternative over an
established treatment can amount to choosing death over life. But that
is not to say that complementary therapies have no legitimate role in
cancer therapy. They can make both the disease and the treatment more
bearable. The challenge is to integrate them wisely into your
care.Though no complementary or alternative therapy has yet been
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December 2, 2002 Newsweek
A Natural Way to Age
Claudia Kalb
With Karen Springen and Joan Raymond
Enter any health-food store and you will be overwhelmed by an alphabet
of products promising menopausal relief. Black cohosh. Chasteberry.
Dong quai. Licorice. Red clover. Soy. And then there are the blends of
herbs, the creams and the gels. Before the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) dropped its bombshell in July--a landmark trial of
hormone-replacement therapy would be halted early because of slight
increased risks of blood clots, heart disease, stroke and breast
cancer--hormone therapy
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April 22, 2002 Newsweek
The Prostate Plan
David Noonan and Karen Springen
When John Stone found out he had prostate cancer, he researched the
conventional interventions, including surgery and radiation, and
quickly learned the harsh truth--they don't always work, and can cause
impotence and incontinence. After months of indecision, the
57-year-old real-estate developer from Groveland, Calif., heard about
a research project being conducted by Dr. Dean Ornish in San
Francisco. Now, two years after his diagnosis and a year after
starting the Ornish program--which
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New York Times
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"Today, in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices, the harp is being
used as an adjunct to traditional treatments for acute, chronic and
terminal illnesses. (Such nontraditional therapies are known as
complementary because they complement the use of traditional medicine;
therapies used as substitutes for conventional treatment are called
alternative.)
"WELL-BEING; Call It the Singing Cure," by Marilyn Kochman. New York
Times. (3/2/2003)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071FF835580C718CDDAA0894DB404482
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Style Desk | March 2, 2003, Sunday
Ah, for a Cool Sip Of Liquid Yoga
By MIREYA NAVARRO (NYT) 1158 words
Late Edition - Final , Section 9 , Page 1 , Column 1
LEAD PARAGRAPH - ''STICK your tongue out,'' Karen Eldar, a herbalist
in a white lab coat, tells a customer. ''Is your skin dry? How about
your eyes?''
Standing behind a glass counter containing mushrooms, roots and herbs
in wooden boxes, Ms. Eldar takes the customer's pulse. She diagnoses
''depletion of body fluids,'' the result of too much ''go-getting''
energy hungrily drawing water.
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Health Magazine
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Get a whiff of this: A University of Quebec study in the journal
Physiology & Behavior found that women's pain receptors responded
favorably to pleasing smells. Twenty females held their hands in
uncomfortably hot water longer when they inhaled pleasant fragrances
like baby oil, vanilla, or citrus. Funky odors, like vinegar or perm
solution, threw the subjects over their pain thresholds. The reason
may lie in the link between the olfactory system and the limbic
system, a part of the brain that is responsible for emotions and
associated with pain perception.
"Pain Relief in a Baby-oil Bottle?" Health Magazine
http://www.health.com/health/mindbody/article/0,15669,446126,00.html
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"A protein that acts like Miracle-Gro for bone promises to speed
healing for back-surgery patients and almost guarantees success. Bone
morphogenic protein (BMP) is a natural compound that stimulates bone
growth. Twenty-four types of BMP have been identified; one of them can
now be produced in bulk using genetic engineering."
"Back-Surgery Breakthrough Eases Pain Fast." Health Magazine
http://www.health.com/health/mindbody/article/0,15669,406261,00.html
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Time Magazine
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Issues devoted to Alternative Health - You will need to select the
articles you want to view since a subscription is required.
Look especially at "How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body." January 20,
2003
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/coversearch/results?collection=timecovers&query=health&x=23&y=7&daterange=1&from_month=01&from_day=01&from_year=1923&to_month=12&to_day=31&to_year=2003&year=&year=&year=
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Jan. 20, 2003
Mother Nature's Little Helpers
A guru of alternative medicine makes his case for herbs and fatty
acids
By ANDREW WEIL
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/from_search/0,10987,1101030120-407344,00.html
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"The Power of Yoga," by Richard Corliss. Time Magazine. (4/15/2001)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,106356,00.html
"The few controlled studies that have been done offer cause for hope.
A 1990 study of patients who had coronary heart disease indicated that
a regimen of aerobic exercise and stress reduction, including yoga,
combined with a low-fat vegetarian diet, stabilized and in some cases
reversed arterial blockage. The author Dr. Dean Ornish is in the midst
of a study involving men with prostate cancer. Can diet, yoga and
meditation affect the progress of this disease? So far, Ornish will
say only that the data are encouraging."
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