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| | Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pain medicine is often practiced by specialised anesthesiologists. | | | Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. | | | Medicine as understood in the modern period has historically been considered to be the mainstream tradition which developed in the Western world since the early modern age. |
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| | Radioisotopes in Medicine |
| | This is a branch of medicine that uses radiation to provide information about the functioning of a person's specific organs or to treat disease. | | | In developed countries (26% of world population) the frequency of diagnostic nuclear medicine is 1.9% per year, and the frequency of therapy with radioisotopes is about one tenth of this. | | | Nuclear medicine uses radiation to provide diagnostic information about the functioning of a person's specific organs, or to treat them. |
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| | WHO Traditional medicine |
| | Traditional medicine refers to health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant, animal and mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being. | | | Scientific evidence from randomized clinical trials is only strong for many uses of acupuncture, some herbal medicines and for some of the manual therapies. | | | In the United States, 158 million of the adult population use complementary medicines and according to the USA Commission for Alternative and Complementary medicines, US $17 billion was spent on traditional remedies in 2000. |
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en
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| | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| | Our goal is to be recognized nationally as the most accomplished and respected School of Medicine and Health System. | | | Penn Medicine is committed to remain a world-leading institution in three equally valued and inter-related missions of patient care, education, and research. | | | The success of these missions requires the integration of the School of Medicine and Health System and a shared destiny with the University of Pennsylvania. |
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| | The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
| | The National Library of Medicine's previous definition was an unrelated group of non-orthodox therapeutic practices, often with explanatory systems that do not follow conventional biomedical explanations and non-orthodox therapeutic systems which have no satisfactory scientific explanation for their effectiveness. | | | The Alternative Medicine Homepage provides links to Internet information sources and does not replace the care by a qualified health practitioner. | | | All of the Alternative Medicine Homepage awards are located on the about us page. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
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| | ALTERNATIVE Health News Online |
| | Categories two through five on the next page follow those of the Office of Alternative and Complementary Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a government agency set up by Congress in 1991 to look into alternative medicine practices and integrate those that work into health and medical care. | | | Also take note that alternative medicine should be considered a supplement to - not a replacement for - traditional medicine. | | | To bring you a number of techniques and approaches that appear to be worth your time to investigate and to discuss with your physician or health-care provider. |
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| | Pacific College of Oriental Medicine: Acupuncture Schools & Massage Schools in San Diego, New York, Chicago |
| | Chinese medicine identifies more than 2,000 acupuncture points connected with pathways called meridians that conduct vital energy or qi throughout the body. | | | Ginseng, an herb widely used in Chinese medicine, is proving successful at reducing the number and severity of colds in research subjects. | | | Ginseng has been a part of Chinese medicine records for 2000 years and was commonly used by the elderly to improve mental and physical vitality. |
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| | Four Tantras |
| | When we are very weak no medicine can help; our body is not able to assume medicines and therefore we die. | | | Desi Sangye Gyatso was a great master and he conceived 80 medical thangkas in order to offer some clear and immediately understandable outlines of Tibetan Medicine as well as to allow illiterate people to study medicine. | | | In the medicine tree, blue is the colour for wind, yellow for bile and green for phlegm. |
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| | National College of Naturopathic Medicine: A Naturopathic School and Classical Chinese Medicine School located in Portland, OR |
| | In addition to offering one of only 2 or 3 programs available in Classical Chinese Medicine, instruction at NCNM is surprisingly more affordable than most Naturopathic Schools and Chinese Medicine Schools in the country. | | | National College of Naturopathic Medicine: A Naturopathic School and Classical Chinese Medicine School located in Portland, OR Our mission is to educate and train physicians and practitioners in the art and science of natural medicine. | | | Along with exceptional academic instruction, programs at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM), the oldest accredited naturopathic college in North America, offer unique clinical experiences caring for underserved populations. |
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| | Tibetan Medicine Resources |
| | The Yuthog Foundation for Tibetan Medicine Preservation and development of traditional Tibetan medicine by education and training of Tibetan doctors in rural areas of Ladakh, and promoting the exchange of experiences in use and identification of medicinal plants. | | | Tibetan Medicine: Monastic Surgery: An article on the theory of humors and dietary counseling from the Wisdom Books Web site. | | | The Tibetan Plateau Project to protect and conserve medicinal plants, support the practice of Tibetan medicine and assist local communities in developing income-generating projects using medicinal plants. |
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| | tibetanmedicine.com |
| | I hope a point of view informed by study and practice can benefit all those who are interested in Tibetan medicine and what it has to teach about health and the causes of illness. | | | This understanding formed a foundation for Tibetan medicine and benefited patients and doctors alike. | | | As Tibetan medicine becomes more accessible in the U.S., it is important to realize that there is a significant difference between Tibetan medicine and the other rich information and knowledge which the Tibetan people have already communicated to the West. |
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| | The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Educational |
| | Hungarian-American physicist Georg von Békésy received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how sound is analyzed and communicated in the inner ear. | | | The MRI imaging technique - a breakthrough in medical diagnostics and research - was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. | | | Roger Sperry carried out some famous experiments concerning the human brain in the 1960s, and in 1981 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational
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| | Oxford Journals Medicine Occupational Medicine |
| | Occupational Medicine is an international peer-reviewed journal, providing vital information for the promotion of workplace health and safety. |
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| | Folk Medicine |
| | The history of the relationship between products from living plants and healing medications goes back to the very beginnings of medicine itself, from 3700 B.C. Egypt, followed by the Chinese and later the Greeks and Romans. | | | Even today, many health care professionals have difficulty treating rural West Virginians due to the old beliefs that occasionally conflict with modern medicine. | | | For residents deprived of these benefits, folk medicine derived from time-honored and age-old traditions was used. |
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http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1041.html
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| | Stress Medicine: Nature-based Relaxation Media for Integrative Medicine, Entertainment, Stress Management, & Sleep - Home |
| | Stress Medicine is so effective, our Videos and CDs are currently being employed in hospitals, holistic health practice, massage clinics, educational institutions, surgery, wellness centers, psychotherapy, spas, life coaching, integrative medicine, acupuncture, and | | | Every viewing of Stress Medicine is an encounter abundant with nuance and healing possibilities! | | | This constant, negative, media burden should be balanced with healthier, positive choices. |
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| | Alternative medicine school, training in naturopathic, acupuncture, holistic health and more |
| | SCNM offers a four-year professional medical degree in Naturopathic Medicine accredited by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME) and The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. | | | Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine registered trademarks, service marks, wordmarks, and logos, including “Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine” and “SCNM” may not be used or reproduced without permission. | | | In 1996, John became one of the founding members and original students of the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture... |
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| | Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. | | | NMT: Nutritional Medicine Today is our Annual International Conference which brings together leading physicians, researchers and clinicians in the field of Orthomolecular medicine. | | | The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic factors affect not only to the physical characteristics of individuals, but also to their biochemical milieu. |
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| | Forensic Psych-Harvard Faculty |
| | Dr. Bursztajn is frequently chosen as a peer reviewer by journals in medicine and psychiatry, ranging from the Journal of the American Medical Association to the American Journal of Psychiatry. | | | This classic book has been reviewed favorably in leading medical journals ranging from the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association to the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association. | | | A forensic psychiatrist is a physician who integrates clinical experience, knowledge of medicine, mental health, and the neurosciences to form an independent, objective opinion. |
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| | Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge. | | | Pain medicine is often practiced by specialised anesthesiologists. | | | Medicine as understood in the modern period has historically been considered to be the mainstream tradition which developed in the Western world since the early modern age. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_medicine
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| | Internet Resources: The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
| | Health care ranging from self-care according to folk principles, to care rendered in an organized health care system based on alternative traditions or practices includes: acupuncture; ayurveda; environmental medicine; homeopathic medicine; Latin America rural practices; Native American practices; natural products; naturopathic medicine; past life therapy; Tibetan medicine; Traditional Chinese Medicine. | | | Drugs and vitamins not yet accepted by mainstream medicine includes: anti-oxidizing agents; cell treatment; chelation therapy; metabolic therapy; oxidizing agents (ozone, hydrogne peroxide). | | | Employing plant and plant products from folk medicine traditions for pharmacological use includes: Echinacea (purple coneflower); ginger rhizome; ginkgo biloba extract; ginseng root; wild chrysanthemum flower; witch hazel; yellowdock. |
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| | Sleep Medicine Home Page |
| | The Behavioral Sleep Medicine Network Listerserver for professionals in the field of Behavioral Sleep medicine. | | | This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research, federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups. | | | School of Sleep Medicine Training program in polysomnography and sleep medicine for physicians and technologists. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Alternative Medicine |
| | Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) | | | Complementary and Alternative Therapies and Conventional Medical Therapies (01/12/2005, Institute of Medicine) | | | The primary NIH organization for research on Alternative Medicine is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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| | Wound Care Consultants - Staff |
| | He is family practice certified and has a wide range of experience in hyperbaric medicine, wound care and sports medicine. | | | Touhey is Board Certified in Aerospace Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. | | | He completed a fellowship in Hyperbaric Medicine at the School of Aerospace Medicine and served as Chief of the Hyperbaric Medicine Division at the School of Aerospace Medicine. |
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| | Medicine |
| | Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Dr. | | | (a critique of this study by Dr. Dale Matthews), The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Winter 2002 [My preliminary article, "An Examination of the Media Coverage of a Prayer Study-in-Progress," was published in The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Fall/Winter 1998.] | | | (a brief essay on the dumbing down of American medicine, written at the request of the American Council on Science and Health), Priorities for Health, 1998 (Vol. |
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| | Naturopathic medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Naturopathic medicine utilizes physiological, psychological and mechanical methods, such as air, water, light, heat, earth, phytotherapy, food and herb therapy, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, minor and orificial surgery, mechanotherapy, naturopathic corrections and manipulation and natural methods or modalities, together with natural medicines, natural processed foods and herbs and natural remedies. | | | Naturopathic medicine excludes major surgery, therapeutic use of x-rays and radium and the use of drugs, except those assimilable substances containing elements or compounds which are components of body tissues and are physiologically compatible to body processes for maintenance of life. | | | Naturopathic medicine is defined by its practitioners as the practice of attempting to improve health through naturopathy, i.e. |
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| | Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge. | | | Medicine as understood in the modern period has historically been considered to be the mainstream tradition which developed in the Western world since the early modern age. | | | Medicine as it is practiced now is rooted in various traditions, but developed mainly in the late 18th and early 19th century in Germany (Rudolf Virchow) and France (Jean-Martin Charcot, Claude Bernard and others). |
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| | Allopathic medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term allopathic medicine is used by adherents of alternative medicine to refer to any form of mainstream medicine. | | | Practitioners of alternative medicine have used the term "allopathic medicine" to refer to the practice of conventional medicine in both Europe and the United States since the 19th century. | | | Hahnemann used this term to distinguish between the use of medicines to suppress symptoms, from the use of medicine to assist the organism in its attempt to heal. |
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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Medicine |
| | Pain medicine is often practiced by specialised anesthesiologists. | | | Medicine as it is practiced now is rooted in various traditions, but developed mainly in the late 18th and early 19th century in Germany ( Rudolf Virchow) and France ( Jean-Martin Charcot, Claude Bernard and others). | | | Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. |
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| | Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike other forms of traditional medicine which have largely become extinct, traditional Chinese medicine continues as a distinct branch of modern medical practice, and within China, it is an important part of the public health care system. | | | The term TCM is sometimes used specifically within the field of Chinese medicine to refer to the standardized set of theories and practices introduced in the mid-20th century under the government of Mao, as distinguished from related traditional theories and practices preserved by people in Taiwan, Hong Kong and by the overseas Chinese. | | | The modern practice of traditional Chinese medicine is increasingly incorporating techniques and theories of Western medicine in its praxis. |
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