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Wednesday June 22, 2011Alternative andcomplementary medicine increasingly used to treat childrenThe use of complementary and alternative medicine(CAM), such as probiotics, herbal treatments and osteopathy,for children has almost doubled in the past decade,according to new research.Head of the University ofOtago, Christchurch’s Paediatric Department, AssociateProfessor Andrew Day, researched    .. more …

31 May 2011 New research concludes that acupuncture “is a clinically useful and safe therapy for symptom management in patients with HIES.” HIES Syndrome is Hyper-IgE Syndrome, also known as Job’s Syndrome. The research was conducted at The Clinical Research Center of the National Institutes of Health. Hyper-immunoglobulin E (IgE) syndrome, HIES, is a rare […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

IT IS, you might suppose, always good to have an alternative. In medicine, though, that is a controversial proposition. Alternative and complementary medicine are mostly quackery. Yet they are very popular. Clearly, they have something that mainstream medicine does not. The question is, what? A few treatments (mostly herbs containing active drug molecules) do have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

(UKPA)- 1 hour ago Acupuncture can help relieve hot flushes linked to the menopause, according to two studies.Women given the traditional Chinese treatment noted a drop in the number and intensity of flushes, which produce a feeling of being very hot.In the first study, more than 260 postmenopausal women experiencing, on average, seven or more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…