Bottom line? Anything for an edge. Why not acupuncture too? Calms stress, improves immune response, lessens pain, helps you sleep, keeps you away from medications and surgeries and able to do activities. I guess I should “makes you more money” to the
Of course, we all could guess that. West Nile virus is increasing, asthma rates soaring, allergy season lengthening. This report lays it all out and makes a strong demand for States to mitigate and plan for the repercussions and
Even appendicitis is not always an indication for surgery. That IS news. They studied using antibiotics only in children and it worked quite well. Amazing.
Count me as very skeptical on this one. Not that I don’t believe that this was possible, or even saved the patient’s life in this instance. But do we really want brain surgeons to have split attention? Was there really
More in the “First, Do No Harm” file. The study tried to account as much as possible for other factors such as severity of anxiety, alcohol consumption, and other variables. But they had to conclude that the medications were potentially
Turns out that Medical Device companies have making tweaks to their devices without putting them through human testing. Calamity ensues. First, Do No Harm. A few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration announced a stunning recall, saying that electrical
An insightful post at Brilliant Blog urges us to seek analogies to achieve breakthroughs. This is a key part of my “product development.” Finding analogies in nature that can explain needling’s effect on the body and brain, eg pearl formation, parasite
Heart Rate Variability is a measure of the body’s stress levels, and my area of research. In this simple study, they compared women on Hormone Replacement Therapy and those who were not. Heart Rate Variability was better in when women
This is the hair raising story of a biology researcher, scientist, and UC Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes, who tried to sound the alarm about a fertilizer called “atrazine.” He found atrazine was a hormone disruptor and lead to genital
Of course, I would have loved to see acupuncture come in with a resounding recommendation, but given the panel, I will take what I can get. They didn’t dismiss acupuncture and it came in tied with Synvist injections. In the
