Cancer Alternative Therapies

                   

My Diary is deliberately kooky

metro.co.uk     Jul 23, 2008          

by Mio Matsumoto (Jonathan Cape, £12.99) Claire Allfree - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 This alternative cancer diary begins with art student Mio Matsumoto discovering an ulcer on her tongue. It's a malign tumour and she returns home...                    

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Local doctor offers alternative medicine options

thehour.com     Jul 23, 2008          

By CHASE WRIGHT cwright@thestamfordtimes.com STAMFORD -- Dana Flavin is not your typical doctor. She has more than four times the educational background of most of her colleagues, has held professional positions all around the...                    

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Qigong for cancer care

camlawblog.com     Jul 21, 2008   1 related          

Health trends include qigong for cancer care with a video by MD Anderson. A practitioner of qigong therapy reports that the USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia) department of Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy and Oncology will host a...                    

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Regulating traditional medicine

thestar.com.my     Jul 13, 2008          

The use of traditional and complementary medicine is becoming more widespread. TRADITIONAL and complementary medicine (T/CM) is used by many people throughout the world. 1.9% The Health Ministry’s Drug Control Authority...                    

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Options Exist for Fighting Chemo-Related Fatigue

redorbit.com     Jul 11, 2008          

By Patrick B. Massey, M.D. One of the complaints I have with traditional medicine is that we do not do aftercare very well. Aftercare is the long-term plan and therapies that lead to optimal health after recovering from a...                    

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Chewing over the Churnalism: PLoS Medicine in NHS Choices

plos.org     Jul 11, 2008          

“Few things can make a doctor’s heart sink more in a clinic than a patient brandishing a newspaper clipping”, wrote Ben Goldacre in an article in the BMJ last year. (Especially if that clipping is from the Daily Mail, which has...                    

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The costs and benefits of the latest, greatest cancer drugs [Respectful Insolence]

scienceblogs.com     Jul 7, 2008   40 related          

Last week, The New York Times started a rather unusual series in its medical section entitled, The Evidence Gap, described thusly: Articles in this series will explore medical treatments used despite scant proof they work and...                    

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The Benefits of Alternative Medicine With Radiotherapy

bloggingzoom.com     Jul 4, 2008          

Alternative medicine and radiotherapy can be used together as a treatment for certain diseases, particularly common with cancer patients. External beam therapy is one method that is widely used and the name came from the...                    

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Survey Assesses Worldwide Cocaine And Cannabis Use

drugpolicycentral.com     Jul 1, 2008   106 related          

Survey Assesses Worldwide Cocaine And Cannabis Use Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News Survey Assesses Worldwide Cocaine And Cannabis Use Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs The 17 participating countries were determined...                    

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The age of reason

thestar.com.my     Jun 29, 2008          

Blowing hot and cold in the cancer clinic – the downside of traditional and complementary medicine. Last month she decided to give “Western” medicine a try (the term “Western” is one I strongly object to, but more of that...                    

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