Health Wise: Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Are Conventional Treatments Scientifically Based?

• Thermascan Quotes
• Clinical Evidence
• Paid Advertising in Medical Journals Affects Articles Published
• http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/percent.html
• http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp
• www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_22/b3986001.htm
• www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_29/b3943037_mz011.htm?chan=tc
   

Integrative Medicine Studies and Websites

• How Poor Gut Health Fuels Inflammation and Fatigue
• Leaky Gut
• Patients Seek Integrative Physicians - Top Twenty-five Conditions
• Mistletoe helps cancer patients, 25 Dec 2008
• PubMed NIH & US Library of Medicine
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - NIH
• British Journal of Medicine - Clinical Evidence
• UNCTV Healthwise Series On Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• American College for Advancement In Medicine (ACAM)
  A national not-for-profit medical society dedicated to educating physicians and other health care professionals on the latest findings and emerging procedures in preventive/nutritional medicine.

Environmental Toxicity

• Kids' lower IQ scores linked to prenatal pollution
• Smog affects kids' smarts
• Some products with high-fructose corn syrup contain mercury
• About Heavy Metals
• Getting the Lead Out, and Fast
• Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Environmental Mercury Pollution
• Fish Health Benefits vs. Environment Toxins
• Mercury In Corn Syrup
• Common Problem of Mercury Overload
• Environmental Disease and Treatments
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• EPA National Listing of Fish and Wildlife Advisories
• Concentrations of mercury in major products
• Toxicological profile for mercury
• Arsenic risks
• CDC site on mercury and vaccines
• California Public Interest Research Group
• Arsenic in treated wood
• Dental Mercury

Autism

• Rebuttal to News Report on Autism & Vaccines
• Autism and Digestive Bacteria
• Autism Environment Exposure in Pregnancy
• Autism Nutrition Management
• Autism Potential Contributory Factors
• Children’s health and mercury exposure
• Vaccines Containing Thirmerosal and Developmental Disability

• Mercury and Autism
• Defeat Autism Now

Lyme Disease

• Objections to Lyme Disease Guidelines
• Lyme Disease Debate

Vitamins

• Vitamins Do Work
• Vitamin D Needs Higher, Risk for Toxicity Lower Than Previously Thought

Health Reform

• Unnecessary Cost of Health Care
• Deepak Chopra on Health Care Reform
• FDA Scientists Complain to Obama about Corruption
• Cost Effectiveness of Integrative Medicine
• Cost Effectiveness of Acupuncture
• Is Heart Surgery Worth It?

Mind Body Research

• Health Benefits of Yoga
• Acupuncture
• Self Hypnosis and Breast Biopsy
• Tai Chi

Books

• Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones, Suzane Somers
• Clinical Medical Toxicology

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