Topic: Health & Healing

Reiki is a healing method that can be used for more than just "curing" physical disease. Reiki practitioner Don Beckett has formed a distant healing circle that aims to bring about self-realization.

The Distant Reiki Healing Circle at johreiki.net aims to bring self-realization to as many people as possible. "There is no such thing as a physical solution to the world's problems," says johreiki.net creator Don Beckett. "The only solution is a change of consciousness in enough people, an awakening to our true spiritual identity." Since mid-June, the Healing Circle at johreiki.net has been delivering 'round-the-clock Reiki to a rapidly growing list of recipients all over the world.

Remember "War of the Worlds," where the Martian invaders were brought down because they had no immunity to the germs that we handle with ease? A cautionary tale, perhaps, who's time has come.

A little dirt never hurt. But in today’s super-clean world, vaccinations, anti-bacterial soaps, and airtight doors and windows are keeping dirt and disease-causing germs at bay.

Altlhough global warming is bringing maalarial infected mosquitoes closer to our shores, little research is being done because this "isn't our problem." Now, a group of researchers at Rensselaer Polythechnic Institute may have discovered a key that will allow a new approach to fighting malaria.

As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world’s population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease — malaria. Now an interdisciplinary team led by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and mosquitoes.

Five myths about foot care and the realities behind them.

Old wives’ tales and myths like that example are fun to laugh at. We believed them growing up. “Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back.” But there are other myths that are no laughing matter, especially when they involve your health.

Data from a new Mayo Clinic study suggest that dietary therapy using flaxseed can decrease hot flashes in postmenopausal women who do not take estrogen. The findings from the pilot study are published in the summer 2007 issue of the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology.

A hot flash is often described as a flush of intense warmth across much of the body that may be accompanied by sweating, reddening of the skin, or, occasionally, cold shivers. Hot flashes occur in varying frequency and duration, even during sleep, and often cause or accompany sleep deprivation, anxiety and irritability.

Genetically modified wheat hasn’t yet been introduced into the U.S. market. When that happens, public acceptance of the product may depend on what people know about it. Currently, they don’t know much.

A Food Safety Consortium survey conducted by Kansas State University indicated that most respondents had little to no prior knowledge about biotechnology, but about the same number of people said they would still purchase genetically modified (GM) wheat products. But when provided information about opposition to GM products, respondents were more likely to refrain from buying GM products.

Since Carl Jung introduced the concept of introvert and extrovert, we've known about the various "personality types." Perhaps the best known of these is the Type A and Type B personalities. The question is, to these "types" serve us, or do they make us a slave to ourselves?

Hale Dwoskin, founder of The Sedona Method and a featured teacher in the bestselling book and movie The Secret, has just announced "Type A and Type B Personality: How Much Are We Really Controlled By Personality Types?

Few have seen the movie but nearly half of the public is familiar with it. "Sicko" gets many talking about health care issues, reinforcing views of some and encouraging others (even some conservatives) to re-think the need for reform.

If the potential impact of Michael Moore's documentary Sicko were dependent solely on those who have actually seen the film, the result might be a passionate but narrow conversation among the 4% of adults who said they watched it in a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is claiming that all studies that have debunked the notion that vitamin E can help prevent heart attacks may have shared a single research flaw.

The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

New Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for ginkgo biloba, one of the most popular dietary supplements in the marketplace, have been issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for ginkgo biloba, one of the most popular dietary supplements in the marketplace, with annual worldwide sales estimated at $1 billion.