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Doctors hold concerns about the impact of Stynes’ use of exotic ‘cures’. JIM Stynes fought his aggressive melanoma as hard as anyone could. Along with conventional treatment from cancer specialists, Stynes experimented with a vast array of alternative treatments, some widely known, some seemingly bizarre. He took up meditation, yoga and reiki massage, embarked on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Delray Beach is fast becoming the place to find alternative and holistic medicine practices, with healing centers offering everything from nutrition to alternative allergy treatments, acupuncture , yoga, massage and meditation.”I felt like this was a hot bed,” said Nick Kusturic, a doctor of Chinese medicine and owner of DU20 Holistic Oasis, which opened in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Smart but small companies need promotion, which they usually cannot afford; smart and generous open access/source innovators need promotion even more. The five winners of the NLM challenge included got a chance to present and demonstrate their applications at an award ceremony held at NLM on Nov. 2. An archived videocast of the ceremony is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Center for Health Statistics (part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released new findings that Americans’ use of complementary and alternative medicine continues to increase annually. Other studies have shown even greater increases in use of complementary and alternative medicine outside the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

16 July 2011 New research shows that acupuncture at acupoint GV20 (DU20, Hundred Meetings, Baihui) increases blow flow to the brain without raising arterial blood pressure or pulse rate. The researchers sought to measure cerebral blow flow in an attempt to understand the mechanisms by which acupuncture induces a therapeutic effect. GV20 is well regarded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…