High use of alternative medicine in senior oncology patients
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer • Aug 26 15

Alternative medicines are widely thought to be at least harmless and very often helpful for a wide range of discomforts and illnesses. However, although…    

 

Is incense bad for your health?
• Alternative Medicine • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 25 15

The burning of incense might need to come with a health warning. This follows the first study evaluating the health risks associated with its…    

 

Hypertensive patients benefit from acupuncture treatments, UCI study finds
• Alternative Medicine • Aug 20 15

Patients with hypertension treated with acupuncture experienced drops in their blood pressure that lasted up to a month and a half, researchers with the…    

 

Listening to classical music modulates genes that are responsible for brain functions
• Alternative Medicine • • Brain • • Neurology • Mar 13 15

Although listening to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening to music are largely unknown. According to a latest study,…    

 

Survey finds benefits, risks of yoga for bipolar disorder
• Alternative Medicine • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 17 14

Newly published results from a survey of people with bipolar disorder who practice yoga have begun to document the reported benefits and risks of…    

 

Can Auriculotherapy Help Relieve Chronic Constipation?
• Alternative Medicine • Aug 25 14

Nearly 1 in 6 adults worldwide may suffer from chronic constipation and, over time, the disorder can cause serious complications. Auriculotherapy, a form of…    

 

UCLA addresses ‘lost in translation’ issues in Chinese medicine
• Alternative Medicine • • Chinese Medicine • Jul 02 14

Millions of people in the West today utilize traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, herbs, massage and nutritional therapies. Yet only a few U.S. schools…    

 

No harm in yoga: But not much help for asthma sufferers
• Alternative Medicine • • Asthma • Jun 02 14

Yoga has long been promoted as a method for improving physical and mental well-being. And although yoga is often suggested to asthma sufferers to…    

 

Acupuncture enhances antidepressant effect of Seroxat
• Alternative Medicine • • Depression • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Mar 27 14

Acupuncture is more effective than oral antidepressants in improving depressive symptoms, and produces fewer side effects than tricyclic antidepressants. Despite the continued development of…    

 

Music therapy’s positive effects on young cancer patients’ coping skills, social integration
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer • Jan 26 14

A new study has found that adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment gain coping skills and resilience-related outcomes when they participate in a…    

 

Acupuncture, real or sham, eases hot flashes due to breast cancer chemo
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer: Breast • • Gender: Female • Dec 24 13

Both real and sham weekly acupuncture treatments eased hot flashes and other side effects of anticancer drug treatment in a small, preliminary study of…    

 

Ear acupuncture can help shed the pounds
• Alternative Medicine • Dec 16 13

Ear acupuncture can help shed the pounds, indicates a small study published online in Acupuncture in Medicine.

Using continuous stimulation of five acupuncture points…    

 

Music-based program may boost seniors’ brain function, mood
• Alternative Medicine • • Brain • Nov 29 13

A music-based training program that challenges both the body and the mind may improve brain function and mood among seniors, suggests a new study…    

 

Therapy helps relieve stomach aches for some kids
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Oct 14 13

Talk therapy may help some children with frequent and unexplained stomach pain, a new study suggests.

More than half of kids and teenagers who…    

 

Yoga in menopause may help insomnia - but not hot flashes
• Alternative Medicine • • Gender: Female • • Menopause • Sep 28 13

Taking a 12-week yoga class and practicing at home was linked to less insomnia - but not to fewer or less bothersome hot flashes…    

 

Yoga in school not same as teaching religion, California judge rules
• Alternative Medicine • • Public Health • Jul 02 13

A California judge refused on Monday to block the teaching of yoga as part of a public school’s physical fitness program, rejecting parents’ claims…    

 

Alternative medicine use by MS patients now mapped
• Alternative Medicine • • Neurology • Apr 20 13

A major Nordic research project involving researchers from the University of Copenhagen has, for the first time ever, mapped the use of alternative treatment…    

 

How Does Acupuncture Work?
• Alternative Medicine • Apr 16 13

Even as medical acupuncture is increasingly being validated as an effective treatment for a broad range of medical conditions, what has been missing is…    

 

Jury still out on music’s benefits for preemies
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • • Childbirth • Apr 15 13

There is no high-quality evidence that listening to music helps tiny babies born prematurely cope with pain, feed better and calm down, according to…    

 

Lullabies and other music may help sick preemies
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • Apr 15 13

Singing or playing womb-like sounds in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may help slow the heart rate and improve sleep and eating patterns…    

 

Chinese herbs may reduce hot flashes
• Alternative Medicine • • Chinese Medicine • • Menopause • Mar 31 13

Women taking a Chinese herbal formula experienced less than half the number of menopausal hot flashes they had before the treatment, according to a…    

 

Series of studies first to examine acupuncture’s mechanisms of action
• Alternative Medicine • Mar 14 13

While acupuncture is used widely to treat chronic stress, the mechanism of action leading to reported health benefits are not understood. In a series…    

 

Intense acupuncture can improve muscle recovery in patients with Bell palsy
• Alternative Medicine • • Neurology • Feb 25 13

Patients with Bell palsy who received acupuncture that achieves de qi, a type of intense stimulation, had improved facial muscle recovery, reduced disability and…    

 

Could acupuncture help relieve seasonal allergies?
• Allergies • • Alternative Medicine • Feb 19 13

Acupuncture may help improve seasonal allergy symptoms in some people with runny noses and watery eyes, according to a new study - but the…    

 

Indian plant could play key role in death of cancer cells
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer • Feb 14 13

Scientists at the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center have identified an Indian plant, used for centuries to treat inflammation, fever and malaria, that could…    

 

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