Risk of cervical cancer distorted, causes alarm

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 Virus that can cause it is common, but Pap tests and women’s immune systems are effective
Roberta Avery
Special to the Star
The recent headlines and political posturing about the HPV vaccine program to protect girls from cervical cancer might imply that there’s an epidemic of this type of cancer.
But that’s not the case, according to [...]

Meditation May Help Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers

HealthDay Reporter
Friday, September 28, 2007; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — For rheumatoid arthritis sufferers whose painful illness prompts depression, relief may come from the practice of an age-old technique already embraced by millions around the world: meditation.
Researchers found that a half-year exposure to meditation techniques helped patients shave as much as one-third [...]

Important to eat your veggies, but wash them first

Published: Saturday, September 29, 2007
The latest produce recall, involving packaged lettuce, is a good reminder that you need to be careful when it comes to fresh produce.
“The key is you have to wash everything really well,” says Amy Bondar, a Calgary-based nutritional consulting practitioner with Hoffman Centre for Integrative Medicine.
“Even if those bagged salads say pre-washed, [...]

Patients line up for DCA drug trial

More than 100 people with lung, breast, colon, liver and other cancers flooded the University of Alberta phone lines Wednesday morning, hoping to be part of the first clinical trial to give cancer patients an inexpensive drug that shrank tumours in rats.
But the investigative team of doctors and nurses that will be testing DCA, or [...]

Evaluating your Options and Choosing Integrative Treatment

Thursday, 27 September 2007

It may seem that we have a long way to go before most people have access to truly integrative cancer treatment. Academic medical centers have not yet sufficiently integrated CAM services into their conventional care models. According to research by Dr. David Eisenberg and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School Osher [...]

Animals Benefit from Energy Healing

I learned about energy healing by receiving healings from a practitioner. When I tried to find my horse’s chakras, I took my first steps to becoming a healer myself. Finding the chakras on my horse, Echo, was easy for me. Echo became my first client.
Energy work, energy healing, pranic healing, Reiki, and hands-on-healing are just [...]

Many women treat yeast infections that aren’t

NEW YORK - Only one in every four women who seeks treatment for persistent yeast infections actually has one, a new study suggests.
Women will frequently treat suspected yeast infections themselves with over-the-counter (OTC) products, but the findings show that most of the time this won’t help. In fact, using such medications repeatedly may even cause [...]

Unhealthy habits tie heart disease, colon cancer

CHICAGO - Patients showing signs of heart disease are at nearly double the risk of also having colon cancer, perhaps because unhealthy habits and inflammation are at the root of both, researchers said on Tuesday.
The association between heart disease, the single leading cause of death in industrialized countries, and the second most common type of [...]

Omega-3s may cut kids’ diabetes risk

CHICAGO - A diet rich in fish and other sources of omega-3 fatty acids helped cut the risk that children with a family history of diabetes would develop the disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
“It is a relatively large effect,” said Jill Norris, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“It is [...]

Too Much And Too Little Sleep Doubles Heart Death Risk

A new UK study suggests that both too much and too little sleep can more than double the risk of death from heart disease.
To be published in the journal SLEEP, the study is the work of scientists from the University of Warwick and University College London and was presented yesterday, Monday 24th September to a [...]