Treatment

Addiction

No Parties Please

By Mark Elliot
(2002-11-04)

A Subdued "Happy Birthday" To Methadone

What would happen if we won the war on drugs?

What if we could deal successfully with the problems of addiction with treatment and see the tangible evidence of success in lower crime rates?
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ADR

Medical Fascism In The U.S.

By Michael Ellner
(2006-01-27)

Fascism is defined, in part, as "any movement, tendency or ideology that favors dictatorial government, centralized control of private enterprise repression of all opposition." (Encarta World English Dictionary) The situations described below easily demonstrate the reality of medical fascism in the United States today.

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Chiropractic

Healers With The Right Touch - Part 2

By Judith Plowden
(2005-05-31)

The Powerful Healing Energy Within - Dr. Bradley Frederick.

Part one here

Dr. Bradley Frederick’s office is in the International Sports Institute in Culver City, California. Its founder, Dr. Leroy Perry, chiropractor to many sports figures and Hollywood stars, has treated me and my husband for several years. (We’ve been lucky with our insurance.) It’s a big facility, with swimming pool, a large gym upstairs, yoga rooms, acupuncture clinic, X-ray, ultrasound and magnetic resonance treatment area, massage therapy rooms and more. But because Dr. Perry is currently convalescing from a major injury, I went to see Dr. Frederick for the first time.

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Herbal

The Natural Path To Dreamland

By Judith Plowden
(2006-04-03)

This is the second part of her feature on insomnia.
First part here

Since it is advisable for the legions of insomniacs around the world — 70 million in the U.S. alone — to avoid sleeping pills, which can deplete nutrients and cause side effects, let’s look at other possibilities.

Melatonin

At the top of the list of supplements is melatonin, the hormone put out by the brain’s pineal gland, which helps synchronize the body’s internal clocks and induce sleep. Its levels decline steeply with age.

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Hypnosis

Rethinking Chronic Pain

By Michael Ellner
(2005-08-05)

With special thanks to Jeffrey C. Kopelson, MD, and Peter Blum

There are some serious problems with the way Conventional Medicine treats pain. Although many of the most popular prescription and over-the-counter analgesics are dangerous, many physicians and most of their patients remain unaware of their toxicity. (An expert panel told Health Canada last month, for example, that warnings need to be strengthened for ibuprofen because the anti-inflammatory carries as much risk of heart attacks and strokes as Vioxx, which was withdrawn from the market.) Significantly, they are also ignorant of the efficacy of well-documented alternative approaches to pain reduction like hypnosis and acupuncture.

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New Frontiers

A Hypothesis And A Special Experimental Metabolic Therapy In The Treatment Of Various Solid Tumors

By Anthony G. Payne, N.M.D., PhD, MD
(2006-04-28)

The Metabolic Oncolytic Regimen is based on the seminal work of former NASA scientist Clarence Cone, Jr., Ph.D. My permutation of the oncolytic approach to treating solid tumors was first published during December 1996. Since that time this species of metabolic therapy has been further refined and modified so as to make achieving oncolysis more probable. This paper outlines my hypothesis and the revised (2001) and updated regimen in its entirety.

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Pharmaceuticals

The Missing Miracles

By Merrill Goozner
(2006-06-19)

A brief half century after the discovery of DNA, medical scientists are closing in on an understanding of the basic building blocks of human chemistry. They’ve mapped the human genome and spelled out the biochemical interactions of cells. There’s even a new science called systems biology. It harnesses computers to biology to produce complex models of body functions, the protein interactions that actually make us tick, which can provide clues to what might happen in living, breathing humans if medicines are used to adjust the levels of one of those proteins.

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