Evidence
Posted: 7th January 2019
Subject: IM Specialities
Sub-category: Mind-Body Medicine
An Overview – Mind-Body Medicine
Most ancient healing practices emphasise the important links between the mind and the body, but as Western medical views took over the two became seperated and the notion that the mind had power to heal was thought to be superstition.
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Posted: 7th January 2019
Subject: Therapy and Self Help
Sub-category: Hypnotherapy
An Overview – Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy makes use of the bicameral nature of the functioning brain and the conscious / unconscious processes therein.
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Posted: 7th January 2019
Subject: Complementary Therapies
Sub-category: Homeopathy
An Overview – Homeopothy
Homeopathy is based on the principle of 'like cures like' - in other words, a substance taken in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if it was taken in large amounts.
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Posted: 7th January 2019
Subject: Models and Methods
Sub-category: Health Promotion
An Overview – Health Promotion
Health promotion is, as stated in the 1986 World Health Organisation (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
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Posted: 7th January 2019
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Diabetes
An Overview – Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic condition marked by abnormally high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood.
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Posted: 18th December 2018
Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses
Sub-category: Cardio Vascular Disease
An Overview – Cardio Vascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease is also known as heart and circulatory disease, and this term covers all diseases that affect the heart and circulatory system.
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Posted: 18th December 2018
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Cancer
An Overview – Cancer
Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of the body grow and reproduce uncontrollably. The cancerous cells can invade and destroy surrounding healthy tissue, including organs.
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Posted: 18th December 2018
Subject: Complementary Therapies
Sub-category: Acupuncture
An Overview – Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an holistic approach to health based on over 2,000 years of development and refinement in the Far East of a technique of inserting and manipulating fine needles into specific points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes.
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Posted: 18th December 2018
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Asthma
An Overview – Asthma
Asthma is a condition that affects the airways – the small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs.
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Posted: 9th December 2018
Subject: Green Living
Sub-category: Climate Change
The (in)visible health risks of climate change
Although the co-benefits from addressing problems related to both climate change and air pollution have been recognised, there is not much evidence comparing the mitigation costs and economic benefits of air pollution reduction for alternative approaches to meeting greenhouse gas targets.
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Posted: 9th December 2018
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Cancer
A new approach to detecting cancer earlier from blood tests: study
Cancer scientists led by principal investigator Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have combined "liquid biopsy," epigenetic alterations and machine learning to develop a blood test to detect and classify cancer at its earliest stages.
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Posted: 9th December 2018
Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, Self- Help
Sub-category: Cardio Vascular Disease, Sleep
Sleep Duration and Myocardial Infarction
Observational studies suggest associations between extremes of sleep duration and myocardial infarction (MI), but the causal contribution of sleep to MI and its potential to mitigate genetic predisposition to coronary disease is unclear.
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