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Treating respiratory illness with salt (FOX 35 Orlando)
It has been prescribed to patients in Eastern Europe for centuries. Now, halotherapy, or salt therapy, is sweeping across America. It's a type of alternative medicine used by thousands with respiratory illnesses.
How I Practice Medicine, Part 1 | The Life of a Hotel Doctor | By Mike Oppenheim, M.D. (Hospitality Net)
Doctors work miracles now and then and provide genuine help most of the time. In one area, however, we are no different from physicians from bygone eras, alternative medical practitioners today, and quacks: patients who consult us must feel in the presence of someone with great healing powers. At the visit’s end, they must feel they have experienced those powers.
Power Plate -- A Food Pyramid Alternative (OfficialWire)
A non-profit group of U.S. doctors recommends an alternative to what it says is the often confusing food pyramid -- a Power Plate. "People eat from plates, not pyramids," Susan Levin, nutrition education director at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said in a statement.
PCRM: Nutrition professionals need to use Power Plate graphic as healthful alternative to USDA Food Pyramid (News-Medical-Net)
Fill your plate with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes each day to keep the doctor away, say doctors and dietitians with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The nonprofit organization is running a full-page advertisement in March's Today's Dietitian urging nutrition professionals to use its new Power Plate graphic as a healthful alternative to the USDA Food Pyramid.
How can you safely get rid of unwanted medicine? (Warren Times Observer)
To flush or not to flush (medications), that is the question. The answer is... depends on the drug. Flushing puts chemicals directly into the water supply.
Royal row 'threatens alternative medicine research' (Times Online)
One of the world’s leading centres for alternative medicine research is facing closure for lack of money after a row with a senior aide to the Prince of Wales.
Mercedes-style medicine (Omaha World-Herald)
Extra fee gives concierge-practice patients better access to doctor
A gathering of animal doctors (The Freeman)
One fine day last June 29, 1977, your favorite food columnist received a letter that said, “You are hereby appointed as probationary instructor at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.”
Power Plate -- a food pyramid alternative (UPI)
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- A non-profit group of U.S. doctors recommends an alternative to what it says is the often confusing food pyramid -- a Power Plate.
We need Ernst's voice to fight quackery (Guardian Unlimited)
Professor Edzard Ernst, the UK's only professor of complementary medicine, is in danger of losing his job Homeopaths and their friends at Buckingham Palace must be rubbing their hands. The scourge of complementary medicine, Professor Edzard Ernst, may be facing the closure of his unit at the Peninsula medical school in Exeter. While there is plenty of money in alternative therapies, the funding ...