| More researchers embrace mind-body connection
Tagging along with winter come ailments that challenge most Western doctors: stress, back and joint pain, head colds, heart attacks, anxiety, depression, upset stomachs and insomnia.Is it time to try acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery and massage?
Surprisingly, even the most conservative mainstream research hospitals now answer "yes!"Twenty years ago, the mind-body connection was largely dismissed by U.S. doctors as a wacky concept in healing. Today it's a staple of integrative medicine, the discipline that blends complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, with conventional treatments and places more emphasis on treating the whole person.About 75 percent of medical schools have CAM courses in the curriculum, and the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine includes 39 academic health centers, including Mayo Clinic as well as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Duke and Yale universities.To help doctors catch up on the growing body of evidence-based research on CAM therapies, the University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal Medi-cine Research and the Mayo Clinic co-hosted the annual Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine."The encouraging thing is that CAM treatments require self-care," said Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic.
Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel's New Treatment Guidelines Via ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2007 Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel (PCP) -- a group of leading national pain management physicians from the United States and abroad -- has updated their intraspinal pain treatment guidelines and recommendations. The findings were released this month in Neuromodulation, a neurology and pain publication for physicians. The panel of pain experts revised the guidelines used to determine treatment via intraspinal infusion for patients suffering from severe chronic pain. The updated algorithm includes PRIALT (Elan Corp.) as a first-line alternative for intraspinal infusion to the opioids morphine and hydromorphone "We did an extensive review of the literature that has been performed and the consensus was the data was very supportive that PRIALT should be considered a first line drug -- one of the first lines for intraspinal infusion you would use for a patient with chronic, severe or moderate pain," said Timothy Deer, MD of the Center for Pain Relief in Charleston, W.V.
City Council delays decision on Promenade Specific Plan
Stone said he enjoyed giving tips to the young players, who received instruction in the basics of batting, fielding, and pitching as well as sound advice about staying in school and avoiding drugs."This is awesome," Stone said. "It's a great turnout. You couldn't ask for better weather today. There are a ton of kids here and they're having a lot of fun."Stone was drafted by the Blue Jays out of high school and has been playing in the minor leagues in New York."It's been a blast -- I'm just enjoying the ride," Stone said. .
Obama Supporter Bill Bradley on What Happened in New Hampshire
COLMES: We heard buzz words from the right, as we just heard from partner here, national health care they think is a bad thing. They accuse Democrats of wanting to raise taxes when they want to rescind the Bush tax cuts on the upper income people. So it's all a matter of how you define this stuff. BRADLEY: I think one of Barack's points that's really an important point and a unifying point — and I agree with it — the biggest lie perpetrated on the American public in the last 40 years has been the so called red-blue divide. If you were at a little league baseball game and a parent of the shortstop is next to you, do you say, I wonder if they're red or blue? HANNITY: He does. COLMES: Well, actually, I have a feeling — If I got sick, before he would give me mouth to mouth resuscitation, he'd want to see if I had an ACLU card.
This primary is pertinent
On Friday, Nelson applauded candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton's pledge to seek seating the state's delegation. He also sought to get the other candidates to promise the same thing. "In the end, the Florida vote will count — and, so will all its delegates," Nelson said in a statement. But if one or both parties still have a raging contest for their nominations next summer, no candidate is going to want to bring in votes that might put someone else over the top. One wild card on the GOP side is a rule giving Greer virtual control of the delegation, whether it's 57 or 114 votes. That means he can broker the Florida bloc to the candidate who does what the state wants — such as putting Crist on the ticket for vice president. Delegate math aside, operatives on both sides know that Florida is still Florida.
Protecting the core of life
For starters, Mater Dei is a hospital thats designed to accommodate all the specialities that modern medicine requires.
St Lukes was built in the early 1940s and only catered for general medicine and surgeries. Now we have so many sub-specialities that require their own niche in a hospital.
Cardiology did not start as a department until 1995 and all the cardiac bits were placed in different parts over the hospital. We were shoe-horned into a place that wasnt designed for us.
With regard to Mater Dei, we were consulted from day one as how we wanted our department laid out so we are very proud of it as we had an input in its design.
Its one of the nicest hospitals Ive ever worked in.
Thats as far as the hospital is concerned.
One on One with Lisa Hanfileti
One on One is a weekly feature profiling Clark County business people. So, you're an acupuncturist and your husband is a doctor - you don't normally see those two specialists in the same office. Actually, he is a pediatrician and a medical acupuncturist; I'm a licensed acupuncturist. Does your husband do traditional Western medicine? No, he doesn't. He worked at The Vancouver Clinic for six years doing primary care pediatrics. His was introduced to this field when I told him that I wanted to change my career and go into acupuncture. He got training in medical acupuncture, and he gradually incorporated it into his practice, but acupuncture doesn't fit the traditional Western model of in-and-out medicine. So what spurred the two of you to start Points of Origin? We started on this path probably 10 years ago, I was having headaches and I was also suffering from insomnia.
|
