Topic: Health & Healing

Fibromyalgia, a disease affecting approximately 5 percent of the population, can cause pain that is truly profound and widespread affecting all aspects of the sufferer's life. Studies demonstrate that the use of magnetic therapy is an effective drug free means of alleviating this profound pain.

Fibromyalgia is a rather elusive disease characterized by widespread muscular and myofascial aches and pains. The most common sites are the back, shoulders and the joints, accompanied by pain and stiffness. Studies now show that those with the disease are experiencing drug free pain relief by using magnetic therapy to block pain receptors.

Here it is, all between two covers. Over 300 detailed therapy listings on complementary and alternative therapies.

With over 300 detailed therapy listings, Alan E. Smith's new book UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Therapies is the most inclusive book on CAM therapies ever published.

Climate change's risks to health include heat waves, floods and wildfires, changes in disease patterns and the effect of worsening food yields.

Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ on Saturday.

Drinking cranberry juice to prevent urinary tract infections, an old home remedy, has now been shown to be effective.

Evidence supports drinking cranberry juice — a familiar home remedy — to treat urinary tract infection (UTI), according to a new review from Scotland.

A new, as yet unpublished, review indicates that hawthorn extract improves symptoms of heart failure.

Adding another twist to the ongoing debate over the value of an herbal treatment for patients with heart failure, a new review of existing research suggests that hawthorn extract “significantly” improves symptoms.

More information from the Dahn Yoga folks to help keep the body healthy. Dahn Yoga is a body-mind fitness system based on ancient practices, and has diet and exercise programs for losing weight and regaining health. These guidelines involve eating good foods to obtain optimal life-enhancing nutrition and energy.

"Stressful living, inadequate exercise and poor nutrition make it easy to gain weight and hard to take it off and keep it off," declares Ilchi Lee, president of the University of Brain Education in South Korea. He adds, "A large part of the problem and solution is what is happening to our digestion, and therefore our health. Most people experience a build up of waste in their intestines, which negatively affects all our vital functions -- including the brain -- even leading to an unfavorable emotional impact."

The vitamin D deficiency long interpreted as a cause of disease is more likely the result of the disease process and increasing intake of vitamin D often makes the disease worse.

Low blood levels of vitamin D have long been associated with disease, and the assumption has been made that vitamin D supplements may protect against disease. In the light of new knowledge that hundreds of genes are dependent on vitamin D, this assumption needs to be reconsidered.

People no longer have to live with chronic pain and anguish. A pop of a pill is not always the answer though, and more individuals are seeking alternatives. The fastest rising trend in healthcare is in the field of Oriental Medicine and, in particular, acupuncture.

The world is facing a phenomenon for the first time in history, that of an increased population of older adults (baby boomers) versus adolescents, young adults, and children. The birth rate has slowed dramatically and, in some parts of the world where overpopulation was a serious issue, governments no longer have to worry.

Like a page out of the Magick 101 textbook, researchers are now saying that the best cure for lonliness may be an imaginary friend.

New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.

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Nicholas Epley, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science,
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

“Biological reproduction is not a very efficient way to alleviate one’s loneliness, but you can make up people when you’re motivated to do so,” said Nicholas Epley, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. “When people lack a sense of connection with other people, they are more likely to see their pets, gadgets or gods as human-like.”

A survey from the Society for Women's Health Research gauges doctors’ opinions on depression risk factors, symptoms and life stages when women may be more vulnerable to depression.

Women and men doctors have some divergent views about women and depression, according to a recent survey conducted by the Society for Women’s Health Research, a Washington, D.C., based advocacy organization.

Women doctors are more likely than their male counterparts to believe that women are specifically susceptible to depression during two key times of hormonal transition in a woman’s life: puberty (67.5 percent to 48.2 percent) and perimonpause (92.8 percent to 67.5 percent). There was no difference in the beliefs of male and female doctors about the risk of depression in the postpartum or post menopause periods.