Today we unite the global cancer communityToday we raise awarenessToday we inspire changeToday we fight for fairnessToday we help #CloseTheCareGap So that everyday, everyone, everywhere has access to cancer care. ✨ https://www.worldcancerday.org/ WorldCancerDay #cancer #acupuncture
The healthcare we want focuses on the whole person, is participative, respects individual choices as well as cultural diversity and integrates clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information. The People’s Declaration calls for the respectful collaboration between traditional, complementary and...
Meteorological patterns suggest crop fungus may cause Kawasaki disease. https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-illness-may-be-carried-wind
https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-11-25
In 2009, Doug Dearth produced the famous documentary “9000 Needles” about this brothers recovery from a stroke with the help of acupuncture in Tianjin, China. In 2021, Doug completed another documentary, called “Return to Live”, about the treatment of very difficult neurological #diseases by...
Wonderful essay on the background of the modern Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/birth-tcm-acupuncture-owing-lot-herbal-doctor-who-scorned-brook-cheng/
A great fighter is not just one who wins, but one who does so well, with masterful control of themselves and their actions as they engage in something most people actively try to avoid. Dr. Sin connects this multifaceted understanding of fighting to how...
Sheldrake gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two materialists in the US,...
Written by Brook Cheng Dry needling, also known as trigger point dry needling and intramuscular stimulation (Dommerholt J et al, 2006; Zhou K, et al, 2015), a therapeutic technique mainly used for treatment of muscle pain by various healthcare practitioners, including physical therapists, physicians,...
So I tried ChatGPT. Q:how to integrate acupuncture in modern health careA:Integrating acupuncture into modern healthcare can be done in several ways:1) Incorporating acupuncture into traditional medical treatments: Acupuncture can be used as an adjunct therapy alongside conventional medical treatments for conditions such as...
So I tried ChatGPT. Q: write on japanese acupuncture in the style of a haiku A: Needles in skin deep Easing pain and tension away Nature’s healing sleep
So I tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence. Q: how to research acupuncture A: Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body, called acupoints. To research acupuncture, one can follow these steps:...
So I tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence. Q: how can we prove that acupuncture works A: Proving that acupuncture works can be challenging because it is a complex and multifaceted practice. To prove the effectiveness of acupuncture, scientists typically use randomized controlled trials (RCTs)...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05525-z.epdf
Sperm counts are declining fast, and this is a global trend. Endocrine Disruptors, common chemicals that severely alter your hormones are probably a major factor.
#acupuncture#Nepal#ARP#compassion
At the end of the year, we may be reflecting upon what is right and what is wrong in the world. Here is an overview of the four different kinds of healthcare systems in the world. We may or may not be happy with...
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) now has a whole section on acupuncture, which includes guidance on clinical trials, economic analysis, and development of clinical practice guidelines. Acupuncture is now recommended in many countries as a viable treatment strategy for the management of various conditions...
Long Covid is a new condition and the best way to treat it is not yet understood. Evidence like this from Hong Kong suggest that the benefits of acupuncture for people with long covid in the UK should be investigated. Acupuncture is recommended in...
The WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) is a knowledge centre for traditional medicine. As part of WHO’s overall traditional medicine strategy, it has a strategic focus on evidence and learning, data and analytics, sustainability and equity, and innovation and technology to optimize...
https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/acupuncture-joint-pain-relief acupuncture #jointpain #pain #webmd
‘Indeed, when we can drink from our rivers, it means that a whole ecosystem is healthy and in balance. Rivers can only be drinkable when all actions and relations in an entire watershed contribute.This could be a guiding principle for our societies,as a replacement...
Biophysical scientist and acupuncturist Claire Foley has written a paper on the known mechanisms behind acupuncture, and this has been published in the Medical Acupuncture journal. It is called “A Biophysical Model for Cardiovascular Effects of Acupuncture – Underlying Mechanisms Based on First Principles”,...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-we-always-seem-to-catch-a-cold-or-flu-in-cold-weather-a-new-study-explains
“Sir William Osler, one of the fathers of modern medicine, is widely quoted as having said that objectivity is the essential quality of the true physician. What he actually said is different and far more profound than that. The original quote was in Latin...
“What GPs… need, is better access for their patients to alternative, non-pharmacological treatments, which can be patchy across the country.”Acupuncture is now officially recommended in the UK by NICE for the treatment of chronic pain, migraines and headaches. Acupuncture also regularly outperforms usual care/conventional...
Here’s some very good info about preparing pumpkin and it’s value, by French man Lokmane Benaicha, who’s been studying in China for over a decade. Thank you Bruce Bentley to bringing it to my attention!It’s about treating COUGH. There’s another recipe with ginger, turnip...
Paracetamol, also called acetaminophen, should be used only when medically indicated during pregnancy and at the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time, according to a Consensus Statement published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00553-7
Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine: Terry Lectures 2017by Judith Farquhar.These lectures draw on the science and practice of traditional Chinese medicine to address enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. Chinese medicine has often been taken to be “mystical”...
Philosopher Charles Eisenstein with yet another great essay.He discusses the problem that in medicine, as in agriculture, the focus is often on details: specific treatments or diseases, that offer specific challenges. While that may or may not be true, such a discussion ignores the...
Few people are aware that Gua sha has been used to treat some of the symptoms of the effects of Covid-19 in China. In this podcast, Clive Witham explains how it is being used in hospitals in China and details the protocol used and...
To the point is a 30-minute documentary that highlights the growing body of scientific evidence that acupuncture is an effective treatment for a variety of health conditions.
People with Parkinson’s disease who combine standard medication with various types of acupuncture treatments may see improvements in their motor function and quality of life, a review study from China suggests.However, its researchers noted that additional clinical trials are necessary to validate these findings.The...
Pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the complications of COVID patients. It is clinically observed that most patients have different degrees of post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis when discharged from the hospital. The post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis of severely ill patients is particularly significant. Therefore, the rehabilitation...
Het orgaan waarmee we ons het meest identificeren is ons brein. Spijtig, vindt farmacoloog prof. Aletta Kraneveld (UU), want het zijn je darmen die je bacteriehuishouding regelen, je afweer trainen en de buitenwereld verbinden met je hersenen. Wie de darmen als centrum ziet, benadert...
The Journal of Global Health Reports has published a study facilitated by the Acupuncture Relief Project. The article, titled “Non-communicable disease risk factors and prevalence within Thaha, Makwanpur, Nepal” was a major undertaking the organisation and is hoped to contribute to a more comprehensive...
Now on NATURE Podcast: How electric acupuncture zaps inflammation in mice.The neurons behind acupuncture’s effect on inflammation, and how antibiotics affect gut bacteria.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02806-x
New free Chinese herbal database launched called SuperTCMSuperTCM is an online resource that connects data from multiple scientific sources and languages. Drug information from published TCM databases and the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia as well as specialized meta-websites such as Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Service...
“Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide— three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In...
The “Tiger Warmer” is a very useful tool to use at home. In essence, it is an incense holder, that is used to heat areas on the body. My friend David Euler shows how it can be used in children and adults to treat...
A cure for chronic fatigue syndrome? No. But a study showed that moxibustion relieves chronic fatigue syndrome, which is already very good for this crippling condition.Conclusions: Based on limited evidence, moxibustion might be an effective and safe complementary therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, which...
Cupping is one of the auxiliary techniques that we use. Scientific research is not only done into acupuncture, but also into techniques like cupping. This is an MRI image of a suction cup applied to the skin, showing how muscle and fascia is pulled...
Thanks for this, Igor Simonov!Chinese Medicine uses carrots to inhibit viral infection due to increasing of interferon levels in blood which inhibits viral mRNA after consumption of decoction of carrots . Two carrots (200g) chopped in pieces and boiled for 15 min in 1/2...
In this podcast, dr. Sebastian Rushworth talks to dr. Seamus O’Mahony about his three books and what motivated him to write them.Seamus O’Mahony is an Irish physician who’s written a trilogy of books that explore the varied ways in which modern medicine is broken.The...
A new scoping review of nearly 200 publications covering the relationships between autism spectrum disorder and the brain–gut–microbiome system was published online today in Nutrients.The review synthesizes the growing body of research suggesting that gut microbiota—the trillions of microorganisms living within the human digestive...
Wonderful to see this wise doctor highlighting cupping on her road to improvement, and who’s now helping others with such a difficult problem for biomedicine to come to terms with.This is the often tragic story of EDS, which is the internal and external ineptitude...
So what is medicine for? Andrew Miles explores this, among with the question of the relationship between medicine and science, in this essay “Medicine of the Whole Person: away from scientistic reductionism and towards the embrace of the complexin clinical practice”https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43022670_On_a_Medicine_of_the_Whole_Person_Away_from_scientistic_reductionism_and_towards_the_embrace_of_the_complex_in_clinical_practice
https://charliebuck.medium.com/chinese-medicine-and-the-challenge-of-pain-a7522c760239
Interessant nieuws voor acupuncturisten en andere zorgprofessionals in de TCM: een moxabehandeling op de navel lijkt het darmmicrobioom te versterken, zo blijkt uit onderzoek. Dit onderzoek werd verricht bij patiënten met een Damp-constitutie. https://www.vnig.nl/nieuws/wetenschap/het-effect-van-moxa-op-het-darmmicrobioom-bij-een-damp-constitutie
Tijdens haar studie kreeg Sofie Peeters voor het eerst last van angstaanvallen. Een week later kreeg ze weer een aanval, en de week erop ook. Jaren later, en heel wat consulten bij experts en therapiesessies verder, realiseerde ze zich dat dit door de pil...
This talk debunks Orientalist myths of holism using archeological findings, traditional close reading of texts, novel large-scale textual analysis techniques, and work in contemporary evolutionary anthropology and cognitive science.It describes how early Chinese views of mind-body relations are different from some modern Western conceptions,...
It is worth remembering that acupuncture still is one of the best studied therapies, and that is has a lot of scientific evidence behind it. Contrary to the ill informed opinion that is so often touted as truth, the data is clear.
In our hubris, we often think we are the centrepiece of the world, with everything else on the planet being set pieces as the background for our performance. This view is the basis for fantasies about humans able to control nature, to prevail over...
Philosopher Charles Eisenstein with yet another great essay.He discusses the problem that in medicine, as in agriculture, the focus is often on details: specific treatments or diseases, that offer specific challenges. While that may or may not be true, such a discussion ignores the...
Opinie: ‘Alternatieve therapie kan bijdragen aan kostenbeheersing zorg’Door meer aandacht aan preventie te besteden kunnen we de almaar stijgende zorgkosten beter in de hand houden. Toch moeten we niet vergeten dat ook op het terrein van de behandeling winst valt te boeken, stelt Kees...
Cold baths and cold showers, even plunging into ice baths, have become very popular lately, as a suppositiously healthy way to “boost the immune system” and for general health.In traditional medicine, we see this very differently: Cold is one of the main problems that...
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) is actively organizing support for people being forced to flee Ukraine, including Ukrainian citizens, students and migrants from other countries, andrefugees from Africa and the Middle East who once again have to find safe haven.Currently, in the Netherlands we are:
In Chinese medicine, acupuncture dates back more than 2000 years. The Military Health System has developed a modern modification of this ancient practice, known as Battlefield Acupuncture, or BFA.Military health care providers are finding that ear acupuncture, which involves inserting small needles into different...
This poem is from Cathay, the volume of Chinese poems translated by Ezra Pound from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa. It is about the misery of a soldier conscripted to guard the Great Wall of China, far from home. Song of the Bowmen of...
Acupuncture’s mechanisms for treating cancer pain are thought to be similar to those for treating other painful conditions, whether the pain is categorised as acute or chronic.
After undergoing a CT scan and being diagnosed with myositis of the jaw muscles, Bassoon received localized anti-inflammatory injections and then began physical therapy and acupuncture treatment. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/sea-turtle-gets-acupuncture-treatment-at-national-aquarium
Manual acupuncture + usual care was found to be more effective than usual care alone for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Interestingly, manual acupuncture was found to be most effective component (RR = 1.38 (95% CI, 1.12 to 1.70)) when added to usual care. Results...
Research on acupuncture has been extensive, and so far, robust evidence supports its effectiveness for some, but not all, conditions. According to one analysis published in February 2022 in the BMJ that analyzed more than 2,000 scientific reviews of acupuncture therapies, the science is...
Thank you, Sandro Graca and Evidence Based Acupuncture!The past decade have witnessed the rapid development of acupuncture research about migraine, and many high-quality papers have been published, especially after 2016 (He et al., 2022).Acupuncture research has grown markedly in the past two decades, with...
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/acupuncture-sleep
A case report of immediate effects of acupuncture on neuropathic cancer breakthrough pain, by dr Matthias Huemer.Highlights:• Acupuncture can have immediate effects on neuropathic cancer pain.• Acupuncture may be a fast way to improve the pain management of neuropathic pain.• Acupunctures analgesic effect seems...
A brief video about Bessel Van Der Kolk’s book “The Body Keeps the Score”. Bessel is a psychiatrist, but he has become a strong promoter of yoga and meditation as a way to heal traumatic stress that has been stored in the body.Meditation and...
Cough medicine, helping to move bowel when constipatedPears with brown sugar or honey steamed for 30 min. Take half of the pear twice a day outside of meals. Store in the fridge. Treats long lasting cough, gives yin to the lungs, produces sputum, removes...
Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, according to researchers from McGill University and colleagues in Italy. Their research puts into question conventional practices used to alleviate pain. Normal recovery from a painful injury involves...
Prof. dr. Bob de Wit houdt zich dagelijks bezig met het begrijpen van de toekomst. Zijn verwachting is dat we naar een andere maatschappijvorm gaan en hij legtuit waarom hij dat denkt en wat voor gevolgen dat heeft voor de gezondheidszorg.
The Gut-Brain axis is a very important one, and often overlooked.And as a treatment option for this, acupuncture is often overlooked. Instead of using supplements, or dietary changes, acupuncture changes the blood flow in the gut itself, thereby giving the gut the ability to...
A free (!) ebook “Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece”, edited by: David Konstan. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110784312/html
A crisis in pain management persists as does the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, addiction, and diversion. Pain medicine is meeting these challenges by returning to its origins: the Bonica model of multidisciplinary pain care.The 2018 Academic Consortium White Paper detailed the historical context...
We need new stories. Our society so badly needs new stories.Here is a link to a crowdfunding campaign for a documentary film that explores birth beyond the industrial model and restores the mystery and miracle of birth. The way our culture does childbirth is...
Sebastian Rushworth is a physician from Sweden, and a proponent of evidence based medicine. He thinks that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the scientific evidence, not by expert opinion, personal anecdote or by salespeople working for pharmaceutical companies.His most recent blog...
A wonderful article by my friend Clare Foley, about the blessings and challenges of human consciousness, and ways to deal with it.https://www.alustforlife.com/tools/out-of-your-mind-and-off-your-head
PTSD is a complex problem, for which acupuncture has a great track record for dealing with it. Let’s hope traditional treatments, like acupuncture, will be part of mainstream treatment options.https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-cross-disciplinary-team-explores-nervous-ptsd.html
https://www.studyfinds.org/traditional-chinese-medicine/
In the EU parliament, a meeting has been held bout the use of Integrative Medicine for Covid and Long Covid. Among the speakers were a neurologist/acupuncturist, an oncologist/homeopath and other medical experts. Contrary to many people’s belief, on a high political level, steps are...
If traditional acupuncture seems very different from what you know, then that is because it is! It was developed by a very different people, people that saw the world like this, and who thought different as well.That does not mean that we cannot use...
Summer has indeed arrived! We all like to use this great opportunity to enjoy exciting outdoor activities. All too often, we forget to protect ourselves from the strong summer sun. After long exposure to a warm environment, we may suddenly feel dizzy, nauseas and...
Congratulationswith this publication, Sandro Graca and Claudia Citkovitz!“From Bench to Bedside and Back Again: Developments in the Evidence-Informed Practice (and Practice-Informed Research) of Acupuncture”https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jicm.2022.0630
(This essay can also be found at https://essays.synthesishealth.co/how-the-world-came-to-ice/)As someone fascinated by the epistemology of medicine, I frequently come across an intriguing, pervasive value judgment that Industrial Medicine inflicts on traditional methods of caring for the sick, which is that direct observation and anecdote is...
A recent overview of acupuncture systematic reviews found that of 77 diseases investigated, acupuncture showed a moderate or large effect with moderate or high certainty evidence in eight diseases or conditions: improvement in functional communication of patients with post-stroke aphasia; relief of neck and...
Acupressure for Labour Preparation by Sarah Tewhey L.Ac http://www.sarahtewhey.com/downloads A simple five-page guide to acupressure for labour preparation which hopefully birthing people and their partners, along with doulas, nurses, midwives and doctors will find useful!
Metformin is a very commonly used drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. The latest NHS guidelines (1) point out that this can commonly lead to reduced vitamin B12 levels, which than can lead to many neurological problems, including fatigue, lethargy, pins and...
Nocturnal enuresis (NE), often known as bedwetting, is a common condition in children and, as a result, they may have subsequent social impairments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in children with NE.https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acu.2022.0002
Gastrointestinal problems, Irritable Bowl Syndrome, constipation, allergies, Crohn’s disease, etc., are all connected to the gut. On the alternative medicine corners of the internet, the advise given is mostly about food and supplements.While eating good food is an important pillar of health, there can...
The Whole Person Research Workshop by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health discussed examples of research studies in these three areas from diverse fields and explored methodologies potentially appropriate for whole person research.https://www.nccih.nih.gov/news/events/methodological-approaches-for-whole-person-research
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794981
“Chiropractic care and acupuncture are recommended in numerous best practice guidelines as first-line treatments for pain. Both are increasingly covered in commercial health plans, and patients are seeking non-drug approaches to managing their pain and chronic diseases. However, arbitrary limits on Medicare coverage mean...
Among the Seattle Storm’s players and the other sports training staff members, Melony Cable is known as “Magic Mel.” The nickname is still a little embarrassing for the Storm’s team acupuncturist. But over the years, she’s come to accept it as a sign of...
A very interesting essay by dr. Malcolm Kendrick on the risk of high cholesterol on cardiovascular disease. It’s open access, and highly recommended.Assessing cardiovascular disease: looking beyond cholesterolhttps://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/Fulltext/2022/10000/Assessing_cardiovascular_disease__looking_beyond.4.aspx
Generally, three scholarly traditions can be recognised in medicine: These great achievements of humankind represent medical systems that over centuries have grown by academic discourse. Other medical practices have served patients round the world as well, yet these have not had the enrichment of...
Moxa is one of the great pillars of traditional Chinese medicine, yet much less known in the West than its younger, more slender sister, acupuncture. It has many different forms an applications, and Felip Caudet is an expert on several of them. In this...
“Ask the average person in a western nation what it means to cure a disease and what will they answer? Chances are they think a cure means a solution. You get sick with something, you take a treatment, then you’re no longer sick. Ask...
Drinkable rivers
Let’s hope that this essay will be used by pregnant people, birth workers and healthcare providers to help spread the word and the growing evidence about this low risk intervention!Breech (feet first) position in the latter part of the third trimester of pregnancy is...
Recent onderzoek maakte duidelijk, dat een gebrek aan serotonine niet de oorzaak is van depressie. Maar wat dan wel? Dr. Austin Perlmutter geeft een aantal mogelijkheden. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/202207/if-serotonin-doesnt-cause-depression-then-what-does
A key feature of nature–based health interventions is that a single intervention can affect people in multiple ways and, therefore, potentially improve wellbeing across a range of domains. For example, nature prescriptions can both promote physical activity leading to many positive health outcomes, while...
A common criticism of acupuncture is that the acupuncture channels or meridians don’t exist and are metaphysical concepts. Dr Vivien Shaw argues quite the opposite. Her research compared the original descriptions of the meridians in the Mawangdui medical texts (300–200 BCE) with dissections to...
Terry Shaneyfelt has a wonderful collection of materials on Evidence Based Medicine, including some very nice Youtube videos on what lead time bias is, how to critically appraise a harm study, and confidence intervals. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
Fire Dragon 10-10-21 Pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the complications of COVID patients. It is clinically observed that most patients have different degrees of post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis when discharged from the hospital. The post-inflammatory pulmonary fibrosis of severely ill patients is particularly significant....
Recognized by major hospitals and organizations worldwide including The WHO, acupuncture has been used for millennia to treat physical and mental pain.
10 Fascinating Facts About Your Heart 1. How many times does a heart beat during the day? On average, an adult’s heart beats: – 72 times a minute – 100,000 times a day – 36,000,000 times a year 2. What is the weight of...
De mens bekommert zich steeds meer om de gezondheid van dieren. Althans: om een klein deel daarvan, met name huisdieren en dierentuindieren. Bij ziekte kunnen ze rekenen op een uitvoerige medische behandeling, en zelfs, zo ontdekte fotoredacteur Frank Schallmaier, op acupunctuur. Afgaande op de...
Moxafrica is a British charity set up in 2008 to investigate the use of moxibustion therapy for the treatment of tuberculosis, particularly drug-resistant TB, in resource-poor environments. Next week, they are going to the ‘Bellhaven Harm Reduction Centre’ in the centre of Durban, to...
An overview of guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology composed by the Society for Integrative Oncology , which gives an overview of the current evidence base for therapies like acupuncture in the care of oncology patients.
Long Covid: an article by Martin John on its treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine.Martin John is a member of the Jade Screen Project and keen to transmit the knowledge that was gathered over the course of the pandemic by herbal practitioners worldwide into the...
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-waaw-november-18-26-part-1
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-november-18-26-day-2-the-nature-of-the-threat-of-amr
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-november-18-26-part-3-how-can-we-as-individuals-help-reduce-the-risks
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-4-one-health-stakeholders-best-practices-what-s-that-all-about
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-5-the-lack-of-new-antibiotics-and-the-dubious-role-of-big-pharma
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness–week-day-5-mdr-tb-the-existing-anomolous-amr-pandemic
https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/amr-awareness-week-day-7-how-can-we-as-individuals-help-reduce-the-risks-to-ourselves
A paper published last week by Levine et al in Human Reproductive Update states that sperm counts have now dropped 62.3% over a 50 year period (up from 59.3%) and are continuing to drop at a rate of 2.64% (4.7m sperm/year).https://www.focusonreproduction.eu/article/ESHRE-News-Sperm-count-decline
Acupuncture Relief Project Nepal – Episode 6: Compassion Connects: THE INTERPRETERS
Two studies comparing injections commonly used to relieve the pain of knee osteoarthritis found that corticosteroid injections were associated with the progression of the disease. Results of both studies were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221129/Corticosteroid-injections-associated-with-progression-of-knee-osteoarthritis.aspx
Depression can be a crippling condition, and it can be hard to navigate solutions. Many patients struggle with they question if they should try taking medication for their mental health problems, and this predicament itself can produce much anxiety and increase the problem.Still, we...
Op 22 november werd een webinar Integrative Medicine gehouden door de ziekenhuizen Rijnstate, Isala en Maxima Medisch Centrum, onderdeel van het innovatieve netwerk mProve. Binnen mProve is aandacht voor dat de arts met de patiënt praat over preventie, welzijn, leefstijl en de behoeften van...
Most industrial medicine lacks high quality scientific support, and a majority of studies on the majority of treatments do not evaluate safety and harms of the interventions that its sponsors are selling.“In this large sample of 1567 interventions studied within Cochrane reviews, only 5.6%...
Thanks, Mel Hopper Koppelman for the find!Few people realize how long acupuncture has been practiced by physicians in the West. Here is an article published in the Lancet in 1837 by a Dr Wansbrough on the immediate effects of acupuncture for low back pain...
“In de media lezen we over te lage salarissen, werkdruk en mismanagement, maar zelden over hoe moeilijk het is om mensen echt te helpen, jezelf te blijven in een weinig ondersteunend systeem en structureel en constructief te reflecteren op alles wat je meemaakt.Het serieus...
The answer is simple: Drink when you’re thirsty. Prioritize water, and try to avoid sugary drinks, which can cause metabolic problems. Coffee and tea are fine as well.“If you’re paying attention to your body and drinking when you feel like you need to, then...
Dr. Yair Maimon, President of the ETCMA, discusses the global One Voice Big Evidence Project in detail: the goals, objectives, challenges and opportunities for the TCM profession in the near future as the World Health Organization (WHO) deploys the new ICD 11 codes which...
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine by Dolly Yang, Vivienne Lo, Michael Stanley-BakerThis Book is open access, and free to download! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780203740262/routledge-handbook-chinese-medicine-vivienne-lo-michael-stanley-baker-dolly-yang
Two studies comparing injections commonly used to relieve the pain of #knee #osteoarthritis found that #corticosteroid #injections were associated with the progression of the #disease. Results of both studies were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (#RSNA).https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221129/Corticosteroid-injections-associated-with-progression-of-knee-osteoarthritis.aspx
Depression can be a crippling condition, and it can be hard to navigate solutions. Many patients struggle with they question if they should try taking medication for their mental health problems, and this predicament itself can produce much anxiety and increase the problem.Still, we...
Op 22 november werd een webinar Integrative Medicine gehouden door de ziekenhuizen Rijnstate, Isala en Maxima Medisch Centrum, onderdeel van het innovatieve netwerk mProve. Binnen mProve is aandacht voor dat de arts met de patiënt praat over preventie, welzijn, leefstijl en de behoeften van...
Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysisMost industrial medicine lacks high quality scientific support, and a majority of studies on the majority of treatments do not evaluate safety and harms of...
Few people realize how long acupuncture has been practiced by physicians in the West. Here is an article published in the Lancet in 1837 by a Dr Wansbrough on the immediate effects of acupuncture for low back pain in a patient who had been...
“In de media lezen we over te lage salarissen, werkdruk en mismanagement, maar zelden over hoe moeilijk het is om mensen echt te helpen, jezelf te blijven in een weinig ondersteunend systeem en structureel en constructief te reflecteren op alles wat je meemaakt.Het serieus...
So how much water should you drink? The answer is simple: Drink when you’re thirsty. Prioritize water, and try to avoid sugary drinks, which can cause metabolic problems. Coffee and tea are fine as well.“If you’re paying attention to your body and drinking when...
Wat betekent natuurlijk? Het is een term die tegenwoordig veel gebruikt wordt, voor zoveel verschillende doeleinden dat je bijna zou denken dat hij door reclamemakers is uitgevonden. Maar de term “natuurlijk ” slaat wel degelijk ergens op als het betekent: “Met zo min mogelijk...