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Pediatricians Need to Be More Aware of Alternative Medicine Use Among Children
Parents and doctors are still reluctant to discuss complementary therapy use among children
What Will Happen To Alternative Medicine?
Ginseng, ginkgo biloba and homeopathic potions have become as American as apple pie, but will anyone still be taking them in 2025? Advocates of alternative...
Alternative Medicine / Native American Botanicals: A Gentle Way to Wellness
The people who come to see Dr. Tieraona Low Dog don't care that she never graduated from high school. She went back for an equivalency degree, after all, then an...
Alternative Medicine: A New Breed of Healers
Call it "alternative," "complementary," "integrative" or "holistic" medicine. Whatever name you choose, such nontraditional therapeutic practices as acupuncture,...
Alternative Medicine / Guided Imagery: Mind Over Malignancies
She wasn't the first to explore the link between mind and disease, but few practitioners have delved as deeply or successfully into the topic. Jeanne Achterberg...
Alternative Medicine / Therapeutic Yoga: Balancing Body, Mind and Spirit
Patricia Walden took her first yoga class 30 years ago for reasons that were less physical than metaphysical. "My interest was enlightenment," she recalls. "I...
Alternative Medicine / Applied Kinesiology: The Man with Magic Fingers
A meat-eating Republican who wears a coat and tie everywhere, including at the breakfast table, George Goodheart wouldn't seem to have a New Age bone in his...
Alternative Medicine / Craniosacral Therapy: A New Kind of Pulse
John Upledger has never shied from risk taking. As a Coast Guard medic in the 1950s, he once performed an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane with the help of...
The Military’s Medical Alternatives
Complementary and alternative medicine — CAM — also known as integrated medicine, or complementary healing, is alive and well in military medicine. I recently...
Steve Jobs and the Lure of Alternative Healing
Steve Jobs’ decision to treat his pancreatic cancer with a vegan diet, herbs, juices and acupuncture rather than the surgery his doctors urged, is being debated...
