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Well: The Doctor's Remedy: Biofeedback for Stress
Tue May 22 13:16:56 EDT 2012
Patients aren't the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In a new series, Well talks to doctors across the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.
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The Doctor's Remedy: Biofeedback for Stress
Tue May 22 11:17:07 EDT 2012
Patients aren't the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In a new occasional series, Well talks to doctors around the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.
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Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease
Sat May 26 20:13:40 EDT 2012
Researchers have developed computer software that automatically analyzes images of the tongue, one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng, in Chinese traditional medicine.
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How ancient Chinese medicine predicts health seeing tongue appearance
Sat May 26 13:19:29 EDT 2012
Washington, May 26 : Since 5,000 years, Chinese have used a system of medicine that measures the appearance of the tongue to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng.
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Computer Software Checks Your Health By Looking At Your Tongue
Mon May 28 16:16:03 EDT 2012
University of Missouri researchers have developed computer software to analyze images of the tongue to try and determine a person's health. The idea of using a tongue to help classify the physical status of the body is not new, but actually a 5,000-year-old Chinese system of medicine known as...
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Studying Complementary and Alternative Therapies [Viewpoint]
Tue May 01 16:51:38 EDT 2012
Author Affiliations: Division of Infectious Diseases, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
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UCLA pre-med students interested in alternative medicine shadow acupuncturist for internship
Tue May 08 04:21:12 EDT 2012
Mia Nguyen, a clinical intern at Emperor’s College Acupuncture Clinic in Santa Monica, and licensed acupuncturist Steven Stone work on a patient’s swollen knee by feeling for certain pressure points.
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Integrative Medicine – Part I
Fri May 11 16:13:47 EDT 2012
Can integrative medicine add value to standard western practices? Some would say absolutely not; others point to new scientific evidence that demonstrates the value of specific modalities in specific situations. Health care is complex, expensive and often depersonalizing. It shouldn’t be. At...
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What Is Adrenal Fatigue? What Causes Adrenal Fatigue?
Thu May 24 15:23:23 EDT 2012
Adrenal Fatigue, also known as adrenal apathy, is said to affect millions of people around the globe, and yet surprisingly it is still as of today not considered a conventional medical illness. Symptoms of adrenal fatigue cannot precisely be explained by general practitioners, since there is no...
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More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
Tue May 15 14:53:25 EDT 2012
Americans are using acupuncture more to provide relief from pain and common ailments, according to a new survey
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