Alternative medicine

I came across a great post today which discusses the ever widening use of acupuncture for cancer patients both during treatment to manage side effects and improve quality of life and after cancer treatment to...

An Interview with Dr. Robert Zieve, M.D. After a near death experience five years ago, Dr. Robert Zieve, M.D. became inspired to manifest his vision: Healthy Medicine: A New Mainstream in Health Care, an integrated...

What drives the spread of Breast Cancer? Recent studies from the University of California, San Diego, published in the British Journal, NATURE, have discovered a molecule called RANKL, found in aggressive breast cancer cells that...

Here is an article published in Science Daily in March 2011 revealing yet another cancer fighting anti-tumor medicinal plant from Chinese Herbal Medicine. Chinese Herbal medicine is a rich source both of modern research and...

Thirty Reasons Why Most Cancer Patients Choose Integrative Cancer Care To be proactive, to take control, to take charge of decisions that affect my care, my health, my experience, my results and outcomes To participate...

Here is an excerpt from a wonderful series of articles on navigating the cancer journey with more support, resources and perspective. Dr. Joseph Nowinski, PhD, cancer psychologist, talks about using complementary therapies (I prefer the term...

Patients whose General Practitioner Knows Complementary Medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer. Start looking for doctors who know about health and are interested in wellness!! These doctors spend more time with patients, pay attention to lifestyle factors...

Want to fight colds, flu, infections and cancer? Research shows that Vitamin D Activates Your Immune System. Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)  allows our immune natural killer cells to be able to fight off serious infections as...

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Colon Cancer Alliance  and the American Cancer Society, colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause...

A Solution to the Cost of Integrative Cancer Care: Crowd Funding for Health and for Choice It seems the Road to Health is Paved with Gold. Integrative Cancer Care  is expensive. Conventional Modern Oncology care...

Curcumin offers many benefits to cancer patients, including bone protection. Keeping bones healthy is crucial as we age.  Many cancers can invade the bone with advanced metastatic disease. Keeping bones healthy is therefore also crucial....