DCA: Is this the cure for cancer?

" "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." The key word here, though, is "probably." Two years ago, I blogged about a promising new drug that held out hope for a major breakthrough in the treatment...

Doctors call for Weight Loss Industry Regulation

Governments should be regulating the diet industry, to help keep Canadians from falling prey to all the misleading claims of fad dieting, says this week's Canadian Medical Assiciation Journal.   "Although...

The war criminal, his wife and the new girlfriend

Radovan Karadzic's secret life has revealed...he had a girlfriend, a  dark-haired middle aged woman that he introduced as Mila, whom he presented as an associate in his alternative medicine business. " The...

Identifying Different Types of Natural Healing Methods

"Excluding regular medicine, the various types of natural healing includes all types of methods that contribute essentially to good health."

Can RNA Turn Genes On?

"This week, more than 700 scientists have flocked to the ski resort of Keystone, Colorado, for five days. But it's not the snow that's brought them together. Rather, it's something they find much more exciting: RNA--a tiny cousin of DNA that may be the key to developing...

Does Natural Selection Drive The Evolution Of Cancer?

The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor (tumour), just as they are in forests and meadows, oceans and streams. This is the view of researchers in an emerging cross-disciplinary field that brings the thinking of ecologists and evolutionary...

New HIV patients today can expect to live 24 years

"An American found to have the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those two-plus decades is more than $600,000, new research indicates. Both life expectancy and the cost of care have risen from earlier estimates,...

Millions use alternative medicine to get to sleep (Reuters)

" NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in six Americans frequently have difficulty falling asleep, and 4.5 percent of them use some type of alternative medicine to treat their sleeping problems, a new study shows. "Most respondents who used herbal therapies or relaxation...

Horrors of war haunt the nights

More than 30 years later, Vietnam Veterans experience recurrent nightmares. PTSD does exist. These men are not draft-dodgers.

The Vietnam War and PTSD

The Vietnam War produced tens of thousands of PTSD victims. More than anyone else, Vietnam Veteran's wives have seen the effects of PTSD.

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