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Posted: 24th February 2021
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age, Complementary Therapies, Exercise and Movement
Sub-category: Alzheimer's, Meditation, Yoga
Can Yoga and Meditation ward off Alzheimer’s disease?
We’re all used to hearing that a course in yoga and meditation can make you feel better. Help you cope with stress.
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Posted: 24th February 2021
Subject: Complementary Therapies
Sub-category: Ayurveda
Ayurvedic Professionals Association are running a series of webinars – Register today
Join the Ayurvedic Professionals Association for the upcoming APA Webinar Series.
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Posted: 24th February 2021
Subject: Therapy and Self Help, 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses
Sub-category: Complementary Therapies, Smoking
Complementary Health Approaches for Smoking Cessation
There has been emerging interest in the use of complementary therapies such as hypnotherapy, yoga, or mindfulness meditation to aid in smoking cessation.
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Posted: 26th January 2021
Subject: 1° and 2° Prevention of Illnesses, IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Mental Health
Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health
Humans are designed to touch and be touched – which is why so many who live on their own have suffered during the pandemic. Will we ever fully recover?
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Posted: 24th January 2021
Subject: IM Specialities
Sub-category: Environmental Medicine
Standing in solidarity with farmers in India
The Indian farmers’ protests reflect deep cracks in our food systems, exposing the harsh inequalities that shape contemporary Indian agriculture – and are mirrored by similar small-scale farming systems across the globe.
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Posted: 16th January 2021
Subject: Nutrition
Sub-category: Sugar
Sugar: The Gut-Wrenching Truth
For years, researchers have suspected that the typical Western diet plays a leading role in the high rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) observed in industrialized countries around the world.
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Posted: 11th January 2021
Subject: Complementary Therapies, Herbal Medicine
Sub-category: Aromatherapy, Chamomile, Lavender, Music Therapy
The Effect of Music Therapy and Aromatherapy with Chamomile- Lavender Essential Oil on the Anxiety of Clinical Nurses: A Randomised and Double-Blind Clinical Trial
Nurses may be anxious for many reasons – including needing to respond to critical care needs and emergencies, and this anxiety can affect their professional performance.
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Posted: 10th January 2021
Subject: IM Specialities
Sub-category: Environmental Medicine
The Memory of Nature
In an external comment piece, retired medical doctor, Peter Mansfield, adds his own perspective to theories about the nature of life, health, vitality and some of science’s unsolved puzzles.
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Posted: 31st December 2020
Subject: Green Living
Sub-category: Positive Change
The Recovery Room: Our best non-pandemic stories of 2020
2020 has been challenging, and COVID-19 has dominated our headlines for much of the year. But away from the pandemic, the world of health and medicine has continued to deliver fresh research, new treatments for old diseases, and surprising developments that will affect our health next year.
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Posted: 30th December 2020
Subject: Green Living, Nutrition
Sub-category: Microplastic, Ocean Pollution, Seafood
Seafood With the Highest Amount of Microplastics
Those mussels, oysters and scallops on your plate may come with a secret ingredient: microplastics. Researchers at Hull York Medical School and the University of Hull in the United Kingdom reviewed more than 50 studies (from 2014 to 2020) to investigate the levels of microplastic contamination globally in fish and shellfish.
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Posted: 26th December 2020
Subject: Complementary Therapies, Nutrition
Sub-category: ADHD, Aggression, Bipolar Disorder, Sugar
Too Much Sugar Linked to Aggression, ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
Discover the bitter truth about high-sugar diets, particularly in how they may be triggering ADHD and aggressive behaviors by overactivating the fructose pathway, a mechanism nature may have intended to be used for energy storage and survival.
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Posted: 25th December 2020
Subject: IM Approaches by Illness gender and age
Sub-category: Cancer
New drug inhibits the growth of cancer cells
A newly developed compound starves cancer cells by attacking their "power plants" - the so-called mitochondria. The new compound prevents the genetic information within mitochondria from being read.
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