This program is an absolute MUST SEE for anyone interested
in learning the SCIENTIFIC FACTS behind both conventional and alternative
medicine treatments.
Dr. Moss provides an unbiased and objective perspective on cancer, it's
treatment and the actual effectiveness of each approach as revealed through
bona-fide research..
One of the world's foremost authorities and independent researcher and
reviewer of conventional AND CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
therapies.
Dr. Moss was a founding advisor to the National Institutes of Health's
Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) and its Cancer Advisory Panel on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAP-CAM).
He has been a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the PDQ System
of the National Cancer Institute and is an advisor to the National Brain
Tumor Foundation, the Susan J. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Jefferson
University, the RAND Corporation and the Medline-listed journals, Alternatives
Therapies in Health and Medicine and Integrative Cancer Therapies. cancer,
books.
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In the community, alcohol consumption is not associated with
increased risk for congestive heart failure, even among heavy drinkers
(15 drinks/wk in men and women).
In patients with alcoholic cardiomyopathy, both abstinence and controlled
drinking of up to 60 g of ethanol per day (four standard drinks) helped
promote improvement in cardiac function.
Delayed-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia is increasingly being recognized.
To maintain the fidelity of medicine's social contract during this turbulent
time, we believe that physicians must reaffirm their active dedication
to the principles of professionalism, which entails not only their personal
commitment to the welfare of their patients but also collective efforts
to improve the health care system for the welfare of society. Internal
Medicine, increased risk.
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, the New South Wales Chief Health Officer released a discussion
paper inviting submissions concerning the need to regulate complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners, and offering models for
implementing regulation.
The motivation for introducing regulation is to ensure the safety of the
public by establishing minimum standards and an effective system for handling
complaints.
In this article, I argue that, to the extent that this is achieved, CAM
practitioners will lose their claim to offer truly alternative modalities
of healing.
I consider the concepts involved in CAM, orthodox medicine, science, and
regulation, and the connections between them, to reach this conclusion.
practitioners, legislation.
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A good story: Often contains a story about what's wrong with
the alternative (e.g. doctors and the drug companies are trying to suppress
this treatment because they want to preserve their power base).
Generally, if the story weren't partly true (consistent with many unquestioned
phenomena, able to explain many events) it wouldn't be as effective (medicine
might be trying to maintain its power base, but that is not necessarily
an explanation for why they are opposing this particular treatment).
Good story: Selection solely for a good story: Alternative health practices
have been selected to have explanations that are comforting and persuasive.
Non-specific effects of treatment (placebo effects): The following sources
are sufficient to say that we should not automatically assume that placebo
effects are small. placebo, control.
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We aimed to determine what advice health food store employees
present to individuals seeking treatment options for breast cancer.
Methods: Eight data gatherers asked employees of all retail health food
stores in a major Canadian city, what they recommended for a patient with
breast cancer.
Recommendations such as 'immune-boosting' and 'cleansing' can be misleading
to patients as to the aetiology of their disease.
5. Cassileth BR: Evaluating complementary and alternative therapies for
cancer patients.
7. Morris KT, Johnson N, Homer L, Walts D: A comparison of complementary
therapy use between breast cancer patients and patients with other primary
tumor sites.
12. Gotay CC, Dumitriu D: Health food store recommendations for breast
cancer patients. patients, NHPs.
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Aromatherapy utilizes the wonderful scents of essential oils
that can be used in aromatic baths, massages and room sprays.
Did you know that antioxidants help prevent heart disease and cancer and
may slow down the aging process?
Come and learn which vitamins, fruits and vegetables contain these amazing
antioxidants to cleanse your body of unwanted toxins.
Acupuncture, hypnosis, biofeedback, magnet therapy, reflexology are all
ways your pain can be relieved.
Here's an opportunity to ask these experts what these treatments are and
how they are beneficial.
Would you like to live a longer, healthier and better life?
We will educate you about the newest technologies and latest products
in this rapidly expanding field! antioxidants, reflexology.
