Besides learning the ins and outs of complementary and alternative medicine, Ms. Klenke has also become something of an expert on how to pay for these...
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now main...
Lee Schneider | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Acupuncture doesn't hurt anybody. Many believe that it works. While "believe" might be the operative word there, the evidence to satisfy the skeptics isn't here yet.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
While the boondoggle in Washington continues, the best way to avoid being victimized might be to go for a walk, take a deep breath of some clean air, and eat an apple.
US News and World Report | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
Traditional Chinese acupuncture, increasingly popular in the West for a variety of ills, eases pain by regulating key receptors in the brain, accordin...
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
There's nothing like asking someone about their work to distract you from the fact that they're sticking a dozen needles into your torso.
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
I recently attended a gathering of supporters of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at the University of California, Los Angeles. During this event, I heard MARC founder (and Huffington Post blogger) Susan Smalley, Ph.D., speak. Dr. Smalley, a research scientist for 25 years, shared her fascinating journey of how she was inspired to create a center for mindfulness research.
momlogic.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Some of the nation's top hospitals are embracing alternative medicine to supplement traditional healing. Are we onto something? Danny Hauser made nat...
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
When one thinks of the medical oncology unit at a major hospital, the inhalation of uplifting aromas, a feeling of sanctuary, opportunities for center...
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living
BALTIMORE — At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits...
Sharon Glassman | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living
But when our daily Yang invades our nightly Yin, the imbalance forms an unwanted wake-up call at a specific time of night.
NPR | Allison Aubrey | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living
Acupuncture certainly isn't a cure-all. But there is gathering evidence to suggest that it can be beneficial. The latest study, sponsored by the Natio...
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
A flat Earth is not an equal proposition to a round one, and when a study shows that a placebo works as well as a medicine, it means that the medicine itself is probably a placebo.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
The Colorado crud is tougher to halt than an off-duty cab in the rain. It's a Rocky Mountain octopus of immune misery. There was a Continental Divide between my ex-city immune system and being truly Rocky Stocky.
Megan Shank | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
As China's diet and lifestyle habits change in sync with its newly achieved wealth, more than a quarter of China's adult population has become overweight or obese.
Yahoo! News | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living
Acupuncture works better than drugs like aspirin to reduce the severity and frequency of chronic headaches, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. A...
Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
Today as I waited in the doctor's office, I felt calm and secure. I felt that after spending years with a victim attitude and years in denial, that this time I was the one determining my diagnosis.
New York Times | NORA ISAACS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
JANE BECKER, a composer and solo pianist, celebrated her 50th birthday at the dermatologist, paying $1,500 for shots of Restylane and Botox. But three...
nytimes.com | TARA PARKER | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living