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From the Editor:
Good weekend to you all and I do hope that you had a productive and healthy week.
So many people around me seem to be getting sick already and the clinics and pharmacies are only just this week offering flu shots. I did find something a little disturbing in my searches of the CDC (my day job as flunkie takes my research all kinds of interesting places). There is a national shortage of the rabies vaccine.
So I think this is a warning to everyone out there: don't get bitten by anything that looks like it's foaming at the mouth.
I believe that I've managed to hold off this first onset of the flu pretty well, but my long-term readers will know that I succumb to whatever is floating around pretty easily. So I should probably stock up on some orange juice and up my consumption of dark leafy greens.
If any of you have any other good advice for me to keep me from falling ill and losing all those work days (remember I'm only a contractor so I don't get sick time and I haven't had health insurance in more years than I can remember) please forward it on. I'm not normally a pill poppin type of girl but this year I really don't have the time to fall out of the loop. Did you know it's only seventy six days until Christmas? Shudder.
Here's to an awesome weekend for you all.
Cheers,
Amy, Editor
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News of Interest! Acupuncture was equal to venlafaxine at controlling hot
flashes - The results of a study conducted at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit
suggested that acupuncture controlled hot flashes as effectively as venlafaxine
while also providing additional benefits to patients on anti-estrogen treatment
for breast cancer. Patients received acupuncture or drug therapy for a
total of 12 weeks. Acupuncture patients received treatment twice per week during
the first four weeks of the study and once per week during the remaining eight
weeks. Patients in both treatment arms had decreased hot flashes at the end of
treatment. All patients were followed for one year after completing
treatment.
Pentagon researches alternative treatments - The Pentagon is
seeking new ways to treat troops suffering from combat stress or brain damage by
researching such alternative methods as acupuncture, meditation, yoga and the
use of animals as therapy, military officials said. "This new theme is a
big departure for our cautious culture," Dr. S. Ward Casscells, the Pentagon's
assistant secretary for health affairs, told USA TODAY. Casscells said he
pushed hard for the new research, because "we are struggling with"
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) "as we are with suicide and we are
increasingly willing to take a hard look at even soft therapies." So far
this year, the Pentagon is spending $5 million to study the therapies. In the
previous two years, the Pentagon had not spent any money on similar research,
records show. Complementary therapies may boost effectiveness of radiation -
With recent research on radiation therapy and breast cancer in the news, many
questions are being raised about complementary approaches decreasing toxicity
and increasing effectiveness. Two well-researched and safe complementary
approaches to radiation are acupuncture and mineral water (both drinking and
immersion). Acupuncture used with cancer and radiation therapy is
well-researched and has several benefits. One is enhanced immune function.
Specific acupuncture points can increase red blood cells, white blood cells and
platelets. Acupuncture also may stimulate steroid levels and other
hormones, such as melatonin, that could have anti-tumor
activity. At some hospitals, acupuncture, herbs supplement care - A sick
patient is likely to experience a hospital stay as a blur of all that is
conventional in medicine -- IVs, white coats, prescription medications.
But some institutions, including a few in the Tri-State, are offering less
traditional services as well, such as pet therapy, massage and
acupuncture. The biggest reason they're doing it: patient demand. In a
recent American Hospital Association survey, 37 percent of responding hospitals
said they are offering one or more "complementary and alternative medicine"
services, which can also include approaches such as chiropractic, homeopathy,
diet and lifestyle changes and herbal medicine, along with their conventional
treatments. That's up from 26.5 percent in
2005.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioners Board has
taken three TCM practitioners to task for flouting the law - Chen Ling, a
registered TCM physician and acupuncturist from Beijing Tong Ren Tang Science
Arts, located at Alexandra Hospital, has been suspended for a year and fined
$2,000 for professional misconduct and negligence. She was found guilty of
leaving a patient in the clinic in the middle of an acupuncture treatment and
getting an unqualified person to remove the acupuncture needles. Another
practitioner, 37 year old Choa Jer Huei, who runs his own TCM clinic at Block
151 Bishan Street 11, was fined $3,000 for breaching the confidentiality of his
patients' medical records. 61 year old Lim Khiam Khoon of Qian Jin Zhui
Chinese Physician Recuperate Centre at 282A Changi Road was fined $500 for
allowing nude photographs of himself to be published in the media. The trio were
censured and ordered to pay costs and expenses incurred by the investigation
committee in the
inquiry. Upcoming
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